Sunday, August 28, 2011

VMWare ESXi Home Lab

I just dropped some serious $$$ on beefing up my home lab.  Here's the specs:

VMWare ESXi Whitebox

  • Gigabyte MA785GMT-UD2H
  • AMD Athlon II X4 630
  • Corsair XMS DDR3 1600
  • Intel Network Adapter EXPI9301CTBLK
  • Intel Network Adapter PRO/1000 T


SAN/NAS

  • Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus
  • Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642
  • Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642  (added 4/11/2012)
  • Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 HDS723020BLA642
  • CyberPower CP1000AVRLCD 1000VA 600 Watt
Thanks to http://www.vm-help.com/ for putting together a good HCL for ESXi whiteboxes.

4/11/2012 - Added another 2TB hard drive.  ReadyNAS X-RAID2 expanded the volume dynamically expanding the usable storage from 1.8TB to 2.7TB.  Basically, half the capacity of any disk added to the array is made usable.

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