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Is there a build list for a nice cheap home lab? I'm looking to dump esxi 6.0 on something to build a test domain for 2016 servers. I spare parted together a c2q 8gb system, but Dell doesn't put freaking vt-x in their bios. So I'd probably just want mb/cpu/mem or something and step up everything a notch. I see cheap Dell 1650 servers on ebay for $200, but that would probably cost $40 a month in electricity alone.
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adorai posted:Honestly an AMD athlon 5350 and motherboard can be had in the $80 range, so you just need case power supply and ram. Quad core, 2GHz, easily enough CPU for 16-20 VMs in a lab. Thanks, ill look into this. Sounds about what I need. Ive lost track of PC specs ages ago.
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adorai posted:Honestly an AMD athlon 5350 and motherboard can be had in the $80 range, so you just need case power supply and ram. Quad core, 2GHz, easily enough CPU for 16-20 VMs in a lab. Just wanted to say thank you for this. I picked this up and an Gigabyte AM1 board, 16GB of memory slapped it into my previous case, injected the Realtek drivers into the ESXI 6 install and now I've got a 2016 domain up and going with hardly a dent in CPU and memory usage after 3 VMs up and going. I feel embarrassed to say this is my first AMD purchase. It's doing the job well. Edit: On a side note, does anyone know why VMWare blacklists anything Realtek? Is it just because the drivers/hardware is deemed too unreliable to be supported or something? Or is it more nefarious? Philthy fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Martytoof posted:Do they specifically blacklist, or is it just a case of not including the driver vibs in the base? With 6.0 they are blacklisting. You get around it by people signing ReAltek drivers as Intel now. Ridiculous.
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