If you're looking for a FE, you can camp on the NVidia store. Their 1080Ti's are periodically in stock. They're showing a 3-4 week lead time, but they're going for $699 .
Location would help. I'll assume North American.
Are you looking for C-strip?
Small:
http://www.performance-pcs.com/channel-molding-small.html
Large:
http://www.performance-pcs.com/channel-molding-large.html
Now with FrozenCPU in limbo, there aren't that many place left to find this...
If you can obtain some temporary server resources, (possibly even pressing a decent PC into service), I'd stand up a temporary Esxi host and convert the DC to a VM.
This way you can take the old server offline and move the VM online with minimum down time. Once you know the new system can...
I also have a large hand and switched to the G502 after the death of my G500. I currently use one of these: http://www.amazon.com/IMAK-PRODUCTS-SmartGlove-Wrist-A20127/dp/B00Q2X7ZCK/ref=sr_1_3?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1432477319&sr=1-3&keywords=smartglove+large
You are trying to install from the usb stick? Have you tried a CDROM, (if you have one)
Can you try using another computer to do the installation to the hard drive and then move it to the system you want to use as a server?
This will tell you if you having problems running Esxi on the...
At first I was concerned that a thread on HH about action figures was running 5 pages. I'm relieved to see that a lot of the posts are about playing video games:o