thecoffeeguy
Senior member
Friends,
Looking to build out a new ESXi box for my home lab.
The box will be running a mix of VM's (windows, Linux, oracle DB, mongoDB) for most of my testing and tinkering around for work.
Additionally, i am looking for something that is low power and not a power suck.
I also am looking for a rackmount server/chassis as if i find a good setup, the idea is to add more (something for home media, plex etc.)
Here is what I have been looking at:
Supermicro boards. I've used in the past and reliable. I love IPMI as well. no need for a keyboard and mouse. Huge piece for me.
I have found this board:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSi-LN4F.cfm
up to 64gigs memory
4 onboard NIC's
6 SATA
Room for expansion
Any memory I should be aware of/prefered vendor?
I was looking to pair this up with a CPU and was hoping for suggestions on there.
MOST of my VM's will be more memory and IO intensive than CPU intensive.
Lastly, a chassis. My weak spot in shopping for.
I have looked at SuperMicro chassis and there are some nice ones.
Any others?
Any suggestions when looking for a 1U chassis? (would be my first build using a 1U rackmount).
That is it for now.
Good deals going on right now and going to buy this ASAP to get started.
Much appreciated.
TCG
Looking to build out a new ESXi box for my home lab.
The box will be running a mix of VM's (windows, Linux, oracle DB, mongoDB) for most of my testing and tinkering around for work.
Additionally, i am looking for something that is low power and not a power suck.
I also am looking for a rackmount server/chassis as if i find a good setup, the idea is to add more (something for home media, plex etc.)
Here is what I have been looking at:
Supermicro boards. I've used in the past and reliable. I love IPMI as well. no need for a keyboard and mouse. Huge piece for me.
I have found this board:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSi-LN4F.cfm
up to 64gigs memory
4 onboard NIC's
6 SATA
Room for expansion
Any memory I should be aware of/prefered vendor?
I was looking to pair this up with a CPU and was hoping for suggestions on there.
MOST of my VM's will be more memory and IO intensive than CPU intensive.
Lastly, a chassis. My weak spot in shopping for.
I have looked at SuperMicro chassis and there are some nice ones.
Any others?
Any suggestions when looking for a 1U chassis? (would be my first build using a 1U rackmount).
That is it for now.
Good deals going on right now and going to buy this ASAP to get started.
Much appreciated.
TCG
