Hello,
I am looking forward to build an ESXi small homelab server to learn myself not only VMware (as I work with VMware a lot) but others like RHEL/RHV, SQL, for sure some Ansible/Puppet and so on, but not in the same time.
I have calculated and my budget is quite low: 800-1000$ but the problem is that I live in UE so any ordering parts from US does not make any sense because of taxes...
I have SATA disks just for low tier storage ( I wanted to run freenas or other "NAS" app as VM), SSD 120GB and 128 GB nvme M.2 plextor disks for ESXi and important VMs.
As this will reserve some place in my apartment it has to be small, power efficient and as quiet as possible.
I would liketo go with the case Supermicro CSE-721TQ-250B because of 4x .5 disks slots, 2x2.5 and miniITX board.
I was thinking about Embedded Xeon D or Atom C3xxx series.
Concerning my budget I can go with D-1518 4core/8thread Xeon: MBD-X10SDV-4C+-TLN4F or 8core C2750/C2758 but I dont know which will be better choice for ESXi?
How many VMs I will be able to run simultaneously on 4/8 processor?
I looked also on Supermicro MBD-X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F because its not so more expensive but 6/12!! I will have to spend some $$$ on this...
I would likie to go with 16GB of ram for start and then expand it to 128 or 64...
I the meantime I have Xeon E5 2650 and a lot of DDR3 RDIMM 8/16GB RAM DIMMs but no motherboard for that and that Xeon is 95W TDP...
Please help me in my choice guys
I am looking forward to build an ESXi small homelab server to learn myself not only VMware (as I work with VMware a lot) but others like RHEL/RHV, SQL, for sure some Ansible/Puppet and so on, but not in the same time.
I have calculated and my budget is quite low: 800-1000$ but the problem is that I live in UE so any ordering parts from US does not make any sense because of taxes...
I have SATA disks just for low tier storage ( I wanted to run freenas or other "NAS" app as VM), SSD 120GB and 128 GB nvme M.2 plextor disks for ESXi and important VMs.
As this will reserve some place in my apartment it has to be small, power efficient and as quiet as possible.
I would liketo go with the case Supermicro CSE-721TQ-250B because of 4x .5 disks slots, 2x2.5 and miniITX board.
I was thinking about Embedded Xeon D or Atom C3xxx series.
Concerning my budget I can go with D-1518 4core/8thread Xeon: MBD-X10SDV-4C+-TLN4F or 8core C2750/C2758 but I dont know which will be better choice for ESXi?
How many VMs I will be able to run simultaneously on 4/8 processor?
I looked also on Supermicro MBD-X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F because its not so more expensive but 6/12!! I will have to spend some $$$ on this...
I would likie to go with 16GB of ram for start and then expand it to 128 or 64...
I the meantime I have Xeon E5 2650 and a lot of DDR3 RDIMM 8/16GB RAM DIMMs but no motherboard for that and that Xeon is 95W TDP...
Please help me in my choice guys