help build a home laboratory

[deadbeat]

am looking to buy a couple of desktop class PCs for an esx lab am looking to build.

here are the specs am looking to get for the esx:

• quadcore phenom

• Asus M4A78-EM

• 8gb of RAM

for the SAN:

• athlon x2

• Asus M4A78-EM

• 2gb

• running Open-E DSS Lite for iSCSI

i obviously didn't see those hardware on the compatibility list so am pretty sure i might run into some issues.

I appreciate hearing your thoughts and recommendation on the build.

btw as a final consideration in the build, am on a low budget project. hence no server hardware on my list.

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Ceheck out it has great information on getting non-supported hardware to work - also if worse comes to worse why not build your lab environment under vmware server or workstation

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