Recent content by steehl

I already snagged one. Once it arrives I'll be more than happy to help out with any troubleshooting. The install will be totally fresh with no existing VMs, so I can blow stuff away, try anything with no problem.

Agreed, this business decision to price out the hobbyist and home user may have longer term effects they are not accounting for. Seems obvious to me, but if I get super familiar with and understand their ecosystem in a home environment, you better believe I'll be more likely to suggest it in...

I am jumping into the VMWare world and have noticed that there is a ton of support for the cheaper LSI SAS SATA RAID cards in the 6.x series of ESX. I'm in the process of building a standalone ESXi host under $1000 with RAID 1 and about 6TB of storage. Performance is not a major concern...