the prices on ebay are just to good and i was lucky to get local pickup. i missed out on the 2011 barebones with 10gb. i know memory is limited compard to a 2011 setup but perfect for my needs.
i also got a tyan S7045GM4NR board with two ES 2.2ghz e5-2420 v2 i think or close to it.
no vt-d...
picked up two supermicro barebone intel e5-24xx server and one 4u case all for 800$ :D
Supermicro SC113MTQ-600CB + X9DBL-3F no cpus yet
Supermicro SC826E16-R1200LPB + X9DBi-TPF 2x E5-2420 v2
Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B + X9SRL-F 1x E5-2658 v1
just wanted to know if i was getting close to full performance from my setup
all in one
Omni OS 0.9f1 ,4 vcpu ,16GB
ESXi, 5.5.0, 2143827
1 x IBM M1015 passthrough
all drives connected to Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B
added another host went with haswell and got an hp 1910-24g switch I also updated my other host added another LSI 9211-8i and changed out the stock fans to Noctua.
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3
Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600 KVR16LE11L/8 1.35V x2
Crucial M500 240GB x2
Intel I350-T4...
on the right side I'm using a silverstone 4x sata power adapter SST-CP06 and on the rest my psu 4 x sata cables. but im looking on moddiy.com for 5 x sata power cables that are compatible with my hx750 psu.
I still need to add one more ssd for zil and two more 3TB wd reds so i can do raidz2...
Just wanted to share my new build for ESXI home lab.
vm's im running at the moment
Windows Server 2012 domain controller
OmniOS napp-it 12TB raw
unRAID 5.0 5TB raw
OpenMediaVault running plex, sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato, transmission
Newnab Server Ubuntu 12.10 server
Windows 8...
just updated my white box over the weekend from a Asus Rampage IV Gene almost went with a GIGABYTE GA-6PXSV4.
Supermicro X9SRL-F
Kingston KVR16R11D4/16HA DDR3-1600 16GB
i have a Intel PRO/1000 VT "Intel Gigabit VT Quad" you can find them on ebay for around a 100$
running on ESXi 5.1 Update 1 (Build 1065491) on a Asus RIVG and has virtual machine device queues (VMDq)
still a work in progress
Asus Rampage IV Gene
Intel Xeon E5 2658
Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600mhz 16GB
i only have one nic so i went on ebay and got a intel pro/1000 vt quad 58$