Need configuration for SERVER Build

[jeevanbobba]

Hello Team ,
thanks for providing me Quick solutions.
this time i am planing to busy A server which support virtulization.(ESX)and my budjet is $700 to $800


Approximate Purchase Date:before April 15th 2012
Budget Range: $600- $900 (including RAM, CPU ,MOB, Power supplyer)
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Virtulization, ESX and Hosting video server

Parts Not Required:keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS
Parts Preferences:Any bran is ok Bu looking for MoBO with IPMI Lan portand which should support 32GB ram or more

Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Additional Comments:I want to use this for ESX hosting with multiple VM running on it

please suggest me good configuration
Thanks,
Jeevan Bobba

 

[richaron]

32gb ecc ram & 2 nice hard drives could cost almost your entire budget.

If you are willing to lower it to 16gb, with an i3 cpu (not the best), you could maybe build a system built around this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...icro%20X8SIL-F

you would have to go without a raid controller.

 

[mfenn]

What is a video server?

 

[BoT]

AMT and/or vPro
http://software.intel.com/en-us/vpro/

if you build this around desktop hardware don't go socket 1155. go 1366 or 2011
driver support for the 1155 socket and ms server 2008 is not good, then again if you are settled on esx then this is really a non issue.

as an alternative you can also get hyper-v server 2008 r2 as standalone for free
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/

how many vm's are you planning to run?

 

[Topweasel]

This might actually be an occasion where I would recommend a BD 8k. Cores up the wazoo and support for Iommu (VT-D). Do you have a Microcenter near by?

 

[Zargon]

http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage


best budget raid card I found was Perc 5i's on ebay.

 

[mfenn]

http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage


best budget raid card I found was Perc 5i's on ebay.

The PERC internal connector is proprietary to Dell's backplane though. I don't think that you're going to have much luck using that with standard drives.