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    What performance loss should I expect going from a physical 2012 server to VMware

    With that sort of a setup and those needs, if you really only have one VM going, you're not likely to have much of an impact, depending on how you set it up. Are you disk IO limited now? If so, virtualizing won't help. But most people likely couldn't stress an SSD (and that's a decent one)...
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    VMWare Server Hardware - Refurb Dell or HP

    The noise would drive me up the wall - until I got the power bill. Any reason not to just get a small NUC, cram it with RAM, and call it a day? Maybe add some shared storage too?
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    What switch are you using for your home lab?

    Zyxel GS1900-16. Works great and supports the Synology dual-port ethernet flawlessly.
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    Help with a server build

    I'd keep the Synology DS412+; it allows for a lot of flexibility (shared storage, namely -- NFS or iSCSI) with ESXi. Stick a 1TB SSD into it, and call it a day for your storage... Low power : get a NUC of some sort (or BRIX, etc...) gen5 or later Intel CPU, and add 2 16GB SODIMMs and call it a...
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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    I've now reconfigured slightly - now I required 1.25v @ 4.0, same 200 bclk, everything else stock, now getting to about 86d F on one or two of the six cores after 3-4 minutes of h265 encoding. If I lower voltage, I'll get BSODs. Due to the heat already, I don't want to go to 4.2 until I can...
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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    Just bought a X5675 to place in my old Gigabyte X58-UD3R V2. 24GB RAM. nVidia 970. And SSD and a HDD. 2 case fans and an Arctic Freezer Pro v2 on the 5675. It's been running for perhaps 4 hours now, total. I can set BCLK to 200, CPU voltage to 1.25 or so, and I can reliably get and stick...
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    Server Recommendation

    My only concern with that would be power and noise. Why is the motherboard used a factor? For $199 that's hard to beat. Add $300 in RAM to take it to 32GB, and you're in business with a great ESXi foundation. Add some shared storage, like a Synology with SSDs, or keep it local, using a...
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    Server Recommendation

    I'm running ESXi 5.5 on the machines, and then Win 2008R2 and 2012R2 (and Win10) VMs. I have a Synology 414. I don't use cloud functionality. I like all three equally - they're all essentially the same thing - a CPU and RAM host to run ESXi on. My provider has free electricity every...
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    Server Recommendation

    I run ESXi on the NUC. I have a Synology box with 2x6TB drives in it for storage for movies/TV and 1.5TB in SSDs for VMs; there's no storage in my NUC (related to ESXi). Plex does not run directly on the Synology; the Synology box is just for storage. The i3 is easily fast enough for a...
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    Server Recommendation

    I run a Plex server on an Intel NUC - an i3/1.7 machine. It works great with multiple clients. Oh, and it runs VMware ESXi 5.5 on it, and hosts a few other servers on it too, based on DRS loads. I run a Windows Home Server backup server on an HP EX490, a Celeron 450 @ 2.2 ghz (single core)...
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    New Home Lab Esxi 5.5

    Any thumbdrive will work; get a cheap 8GB USB2.0 model and you're fine. Don't spend >$10. An SSD is an excellent idea; it's simple, fairly reliable, and fast. Then get a large (1-4TB) HDD to back up to, once you get familiar with how to do that in ESXi. I have a 1TB SSD and a 500GB SSD...
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    1st ESXi Build: looking for Gen. Advice/Suggestions

    1. Put it on the USB key. As discussed, no point in tying up a drive just for a small boot image that will not get used again once booted. 2. I would spend $450 or so and get a Synology 414 (or a little over half that for a Synology 214). The benefit is if you add another machine to the mix...
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    My lab hardware specs 2 x HP ML110 (E3/1220, 32GB RAM, USB boot) 1 x Intel i3 @ 1.8 ghz NUC, 16GB RAM, USB boot 1 x Mac Mini i5 @ 2.3 ghz, 16GB RAM, USB boot ..... all running ESXi 5.5 release. Storage: Synology 211, 2 x 1.5TB 7200rpm SHR/RAID1 disk Iomega/Lenovo IX2-DL, 2 x...
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