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Re: Updated VMware / Home Lab setup. The newest intel server only cost about $1325 give or take a little.
Overall I was very impressed with price. It cost me more then twice that to build my AMD server about a year ago.
As i think more and more about converting the current Intel ESX server into ISCSI and making some mini itx esx hosts, it makes more and more sense. I have ordered the mini-itx motherboard, and a couple of Qlogic hardware ISCSI initiators to help offload someone of the resources of converting to ISCSI.
The plan is to start with a Q9550 I have lying around and 2 gigs of DDR3 1600 to see if I can install ESX. If ESX installs I will be ordering another motherboard, 16GB of ram per ITX computer, and another Q9550. |
