Hi Erik,
Thanks for your quick response.The problem is that the VT technology is to expensive. I want to use this machine for home use to virtualize an exchange server, linux firewall, a domain controller, webserver so not more then 4 to 6 VMs I think...but speed should be alright.
The mainboard has one IDE contoller as you say but I can connect one IDE drive as primary master and DVD-ROM as secondary slave right? I can disconnect the DVD after installation then (if I like). You say this is a test case for you? Do you also get whitebox hardware or just a server or something?
Good to hear that the intel nic's will work. I wanted an ASUS with the integraded SAS controller (it seems like almost everyone got this server as whitebox) but because of the iSCSI openfiler setup this is far too expensive. I couldn't find any solution with Intel processors because I could not find a cheap motherboard with 1333mhz buspeed that was supported so I could use an Intel 6750 CPU (6600 is very expensive at this moment because of 1000 Mhz).
Hope you can tell me about the VMS performance as soon as possible.