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Home Lab Build - vSphere 5

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Just deciding on getting my home lab up and going. Going to try to stick with a smaller box with 2 nested ESXi servers.

Proposed Specs:
  • SuperMicro X9SCM-F w/ IPMI
  • Intel Xeon e3-1230 CPU w/ Hyperthreading
  • 16 GB - Kingston ValueRAM ECC UDIMM (planning to upgrade to 32 GB once prices come down)
  • LSI 9260-4i w/ 512MB Cache & BBU
  • (4) Hitachi 3 TB drives on LSI
  • (1) Hitachi 3 TB drive onboard for backups
  • Rosewill 450 watt PSU
  • NH-U9B SE2 CPU Cooler
  • Lian Li PC-A04B Mini Tower
Planning on using PCI passthrough to present the LSI card to my file server VM. Regarding storage for the other VMs, I was planning on installing the hypervisor to a USB stick and exporting NFS on the file server. Will have to test everything out to see how well that will work.

Thoughts?
 
pretty much exactly what I am saving to build except a different case. I like it!:D
 
Get the X9SCL+-F instead. Both its NICs are natively supported by ESXi.

Unless you think you'll really need the built-in SATA3 support or the fourth PCIe slot. Nothing you list will take advantage of either.
 
BlueLineSwinger said:
Get the X9SCL+-F instead. Both its NICs are natively supported by ESXi.

Unless you think you'll really need the built-in SATA3 support or the fourth PCIe slot. Nothing you list will take advantage of either.
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The price ended up being only a couple dollars more for the X9SCM-F.

Anyone know where to get cheap 8 GB DDR3 ECC UDIMMs?
 
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