VMware will run on a lot of lower class hardware other than "servers". I've been running my vsphere environment at home on a precision workstation. I did search the HCL list and find a good LSI SATA raid controller that was supported that I could pick up off ebay cheap. Since the internal raid on the motherboard is really software raid and no matter what you do VMware will see your mirrored drives as two separate drives. For me that made all the difference in the machine performance and long term stability. And really most high end precision workstations are just low end poweredge servers. Mine even uses the same ram as my 2950's. I even installed it on a 5 year old precision laptop and it worked perfectly. Now that's a nice portable test/dev machine.
________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: SAN question It's a support thing. There's a lot of information about getting ESX to run on non HCL equipment. I wouldn't do it if I needed support, but I've done it when I was playing around. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Bob Hartung <[email protected]> wrote: I'm interested in noodling around with server virtualization. I downloaded VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0-260247.x86_64 and started checking the requirements. I'm confused. The VMWare hardware compatibility guide only shows server-class machines. You're running on an Optiplex. What am I missing? ---------------------- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com <http://wiscoind.com/> ________________________________ From: Tony Patton [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:37:32 -0500 Subject: Re: RE: SAN question My esxi box is just a Dell opti-plex 960 tower pc. It's got 2x 1tb disks, 8gb RAM & a quadcore cpu. So it doesnt even need to be anything special. I'm running openfiler as a vm on it with no issues, great for playing about and discovering different things. T On 23 Sep 2010 19:28, "John Aldrich" <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks. I'll see what I can find that isn't outrageously expensive. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN question Have a look at the ESX/ESXi HCL's and get something off there. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
