Recent content by Sparky310

That's a third or fourth vote for Fractal Design across people I am talking with, so I will definitely check them out. Looks like they even take 2.5" drives (though not sure how unusual that is these days). Thanks for the suggestion!

Yea, that's what I mean about Workstation not being any less "real," and possibly being hard-headed about ESXi :P I think I'll start with the idea of using ESXi, and if that fails, I can always go the Workstation or Hyper-V routes. The dual LAN ports would be nice, but otherwise with my...

I'm really tempted to go with ESXi, if for no other reason than the learning factor. Not sure if that is being more hard-headed than anything else or what. I would prefer the victims and setups and I create be as close as reasonably possible to "real world," but in most cases I don't know that...

Huh, so it absolutely does. I guess I saw the start of the graphics below the initial spec text and it looked the same as on NewEgg, so I assumed it was (on NewEgg it says dual LAN). I suppose this validates the saying about what assuming things does! I have certainly considered going the...

My primary goal is to run the VMs to assist with my learning / professional development in my core competency area(s), but I am willing to make learning ESXi a strong secondary goal if the feedback is that there are compelling reasons to (and from what I have heard and read so far, it seems...

I am using the holidays (and the holiday deals) as an excuse to build a virtualization server for a home lab for myself. I have been out of touch with the hardware world for quite awhile, and a couple people pointed me in the direction of this forum for advice. I considered posting in one of the...