Hi,
I am planning for a budget home lab setup for working on both server and desktop visualization. But I want to achieve this under a tight budget. I have thought of the following configuration. I want suggestions on this and shall i make any change on this configurations?
Open Filer:
Intel Atom Processor
4 GB RAM
1 TB + 1 TB HDD
16 GB Boot Drive (Pen Drive)
DLink 1 gig NIC
VCenter Server:
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz Processor
4 GB Ram
250 GB HDD
DLink 1 gig NIC
ESX Server - 1:
Intel Core i5-4430 Processor
Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H Motherboard
8 GB DDR3 RAM
2 X DLink 1 gig NIC
16 GB Boot Drive (Pen Drive)
ESX Server - 2:
Intel Core i5-4430 Processor
Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H Motherboard
8 GB DDR3 RAM
2 X DLink 1 gig NIC
16 GB Boot Drive (Pen Drive)
Using HP x705w 16 GB Pendrive as Boot Drives
Sounds good.
I'm a little doubtful about the Dlink NIC's for ESXi. Why not go for ones which are supported? I have seen a lot of people who complain that Dlink NICs stopped working from 5.0 onwards.
If you have a plan or a workaround you can use Dlink NICs.
I know that. Unfortunately those NICs are not supported by VMWare. So added custom vib to enable them. I am using them in my current setup. So, there will be no problem. Other than that any problems?
If you have it working i do not see any other problems.