Memory requirements for ESXi

[AMD_Gamer]

Is running 8GB DDR2 at 800MHZ good enough for a home ESXi whitebox? I plan to use this motherboard and it does not support 4 sticks in 1066mhz:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=3891137&SID=194r0

 

[axan]

it will depend on how many concurrent vms you plan on running. 8gb is decent to start. 800mhz vs 1066 won't make much diff at all.

 

[soytusandwich]

8gb is a great start for 2-4 simultaneous vms,

biggest bottleneck in vservers is storage i/o....

if you arent on raid, you should focus on that first

 

[AMD_Gamer]

8gb is a great start for 2-4 simultaneous vms,

biggest bottleneck in vservers is storage i/o....

if you arent on raid, you should focus on that first

Thanks for the info. I will have 8GB at 800MHZ Then.

I will be using some random drive for the boot drive and plan to use a Dell Perc 5 with several SATA drives in raid for the storage pool, that will work correct?

I had another thread open here about it: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1543865

 

[Child of Wonder]

Both of my ESXi boxes at home are 8GB. 4GB DIMMs are just too damn expensive right now.

Depending on what they're doing, you should be able to run 4-6 VMs comfortably on that.

Use RAID10 for your storage since that will give the best performance. RAID5 will give decent read speeds but is slower at writing.