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Hey all, I have been on these forums for some time and can say I get the best advice from this community. I need some guidance though on a new build I'm doing. I want to build a virtual server for service running and testing/learning purposes. I currently have a mac mini running my PMS and glype services. I love it because of how silent it is, I forget that it's turned on at times.

I would like to build a light gaming/virtual server with raid 5 possibility. If I can get it quiet that would be awesome also but I know that depends on the case and the fans. The virtual server client I was looking at was vmware workstation. I saw I could install it on Windows 7 and run multiple VM's for each service. I would like to exspand my services to PMS, Glype, and backup of all my computers.

Would it be better to just continue using my mac mini and look into getting a NAS or firewire enclosure or to build a new computer? Gaming isn't a must so if i need to get rid of that functionality its not a deal breaker.
 
Gaming on top of an a server actively running virtual systems would probably be a drag.
Vmware workstation probably isn't the best answer for your endeavor, either. It sounds as if you're just toying around with virtualization to experiment / learn. To get your feet wet, I'd probably not go buying software. There are a few free options out there. Virtual Box will run on top of a desktop OS. If you want to dedicate a machine to be your hypervisor, Vmware's ESXi would be the way to go.
 
can I run multiple VM's at the same time with virtual box? What are the benefits of ESXi over Virtual box? I plan on getting a server raid for the new rig so will that be supported by either one. the server raid im looking at is the ibm m1015.
 
You can run multiple vms with Virtual box.

As to the difference, Virtual Box is an application based hypervisor that runs as an application on top of your existing OS. You could almost think of it as a free version of VMware Workstation.

ESXi is a full on hypervisor, at the bare metal level. You actually boot to ESXi's kernal, and then run VM's on top of that. You will not work at the keyboard/monitor with this. All connections to the VM's are done via the Vmware client, or by whatever remote software included in the OS's you install.

The benefits to ESXi would be that's its a proper enterprise level hypervisor. Once you get the base OS setup, you no longer need to touch it directly. You manage it from the Vmware client. Its also sort of the gold standard. Granted the free version is lacking in features that the paid version has, but it is the most mature widely implemented hypervisor.
 
Awesome I think I will give virtual box a try first and see how things go from there. Thanks a bunch!!!
 
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