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First time home lab.

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Craxen

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Long story short. I am taking a few MS networking classes at a local community to fill out some electives. The classes are online and the labs are gutted and leave a lot to be desired. I want to take the plunge and at least work on the exam 70-680 certification. I have just heard of virtualization a few weeks ago and would like to put together a home lab but on a shoe string budget of $300-500 dollars.

I already have a Q6600 and a few hard drives but could use suggestions on a decent LGA 775 board.

And for software, I have Windows Server 2008 standard, enterprise, and datacenter that came with the MOAC books that I would like to install to help rerun some of the labs on my own.

As for virtualization should I use hyper-v or install ESXi or VM workstation? Thanks.
 
There's quite a few previous threads on this so I do recommend you search this board.

My advice normally is if you want to learn virtualization then by all means go for ESXi etc but if you want to learn Windows go with Hyper-V first. You can always convert later. ESXi can install on a USB drive so that can give you flexibility if you want to have a bash at that later.
 
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