Hi Folks,
Working on bringing ESXi to the home in hopes of simplifying my equipement real estate.
Have the following to work with:
-Core 2 Duo @ 2.66 on an Intel 975X desktop
-6GB ram
-Perc 5i PCIE RAID Controller
-2 1TB SATAII HDDs
-2 80GB SATAII HDDs
Would like to virtualize:
- my NAS setup, currently an old DELL Poweredge
- the "media server", which is really just Vista on an older Gateway running Windows Media UPNP Sharing for my media extenders
- domain controller (mapping drives, dhcp, yadda yadda)
What I was thinking:
1)Installing ESXi on one 80GB HDD,and creating the VM Datastore on the other 80GB HDD using the motherboard's controller
2)Creating a RAID 1 Mirror on the PERC card for the 1TB HDDs, create the datastore
3)Creating a VMs: Domain Controller, SAN/NAS, and a Media Server
4)Using the paravirtual scsi option, add a second virtual HD into the SAN/NAS VM [e.g. 2008 Server with the Freebie Starwind), and store it on the RAID1 datastore
5)Use ISCSI to provide storage space for the Media Server
Thoughts? Comments?
