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sripati
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Assembled machine for ESX 3.5

Hi Team,

I am setting up a lab in my house for testing . Please gude me if these specifications work fine with ESX 3.5. on this machine I would be installing 4 Virtual OS and also would test the vmotion, disaster recovery, etc.

the machine specifications are

1.Intel CPU Q9550

2.Intel Motherboard DS45SG

3.Transcend DDR3 1066MHZ 4GB(later would upgrade to another 4 GB)

4.Coolermaster 600watt SMPS

5.1TB seagate

6.Evga 8500GT 1GB graphics card.

Should I choose any extra coller like the arctic 64 pro for the cpu or the cooler provided by intel is enough.

I have no idea on Over clocking, so would not tweak the machine. I have already burned one processor by increasing from 200 MHZ to 500 MHZin the BIOS of the Mobo.

Please let me also know whether my selections are optimised or not.

Thank you in Advance

Regards

Sripati

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depping
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So you will be running ESX virtual or ??

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sripati
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Dear Sir,

This machine would be my Hypervisor. USed for holdng the .vmx , vmdk files. I would be installing the virtual centre & License server on other two machines I own.

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Sripati

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prakashraj
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Hi sripati,

The configuration you have mentioned is enough for esx3.5

in order to do the vmotion and HA you should have 2 esx3.5 servers

if you run 2 ESX virtuals in your assembled machine then the above is possible

also you can run virtualcenter and license server in other two machine

refer running ESX 3.5 in vmware workstation 6.5 or vmware server2.0 in following website http://xtravirt.com

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prakash

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