ESXi Lab

limnam

Howdy,

I'm looking to build an ESXi lab.
For the budget I'm hoping to get 64GB RAM I need at least two SSD drives for a cache tier and a capacity tier and as much CPU horsepower as budget allows.

I'm not overly fussy on how it looks case wise etc

1. What is your budget? 1000e

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? ESXi Lab / Nested virtualisation.

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? No

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? No

5. Do you need a monitor? No

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? No

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? Yes, But I'd rather avoid it.

8. How can you pay? Flexible

9. When are you purchasing? ASAP

frozenfrozen

Used Dell R710

Stuxnet

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Used Dell R710

Ill be selling one of these bad boys soon

K.O.Kiki

Stuxnet wrote: »

Ill be selling one of these bad boys soon

Pretty sure OP is sorted at this stage :pac:

Stuxnet

haha I know, just in-case anyone stumbles upon an ESXi thread :-p

limnam

Stuxnet wrote: »

Ill be selling one of these bad boys soon

How much? :pac:

Stuxnet

Dual CPU's included in sale

2x Intel Xeon X5570 (8 cores total)
2x Intel Xeon L5640 (12 Cores in total)

72GB DDR3 RAM 18*4GB, one in every channel

1 PSU
PERC H700 Integrated RAID Controller


What would be a fair price ?

Been used as an ESXi 6.5 server. I believe 6.7 installs on (L5640) fine with the Dell spin of ESXi, even though not supported, fine for home lab

Only used 6.5 with X5570 myself

K.O.Kiki

I'll give ya 10 bags of Tayto's.

Solitaire

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

I'll give ya 10 bags of Tayto's.

Pfft. Unrealistically high for an opening Adverts offer. :pac: