Choosing components for a home server (ESXi 5)

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navigator6662013-09-30 23:05:37

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navigator666, 2013-09-30 23:05:37

Good time of day, dear Khabrazhiteli. I decided to turn to you for good advice.
I want to build a server for my home. There are certain wishes. Help with the selection of iron, otherwise my eyes run wide ... Yes, and I can miss some interesting product.
I will buy in Kyiv. Ebay - also not afraid.

So what do I need.

1. Motherboard. Ideally - mini ITX. Two GigabitEthernet ports, mandatory USB 3.0, remote control functionality such as (DRAC, iLo), sound, etc., such as hdmi are not needed.
2. Body. Something like Cooler Master Elite 120 is ideal. You don't need a lot of drive bays. There is external iSCSI storage and USB 3.0 screws.
3. Processor. It needs support for virtualization. I plan to use ESXi 5. It has 3-4 virtual machines. apache, owncloud, mail, nas… maybe something else.

The rest is unimportant.
Thanks in advance.

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evnux, 2013-10-01
@evnux

Certainly not alone. Everyone wants to build their own cloud with blackjack and girls at home.
BP .
Corps .
PS But, do you need it? This is not a full server. I warned you.

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rozhik, 2013-10-01
@rozhik

Vmvar is very demanding on hardware. Almost nothing, except for the link below, works
www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
PS
Due to the fact that I saw a NAS (and other Unix software), I recommend looking at proxmox or the like, because
1. overhead is very decent compared to the proxmox container.
2. All modern Linux hardware is supported.
Installing the interface is never more difficult than ESXi5, but there are a lot of different goodies.

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track, 2013-10-01
@track

Read the Google output according to the ESXi White Box, this is what you want to do in English.

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navigator666, 2013-10-01
@navigator666

The big problem is finding a mini-ITX board that supports vPro KVM... Any ideas?

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evnux, 2013-10-01
@evnux

I have Thin mini-itx on Q77. vPro can .
But according to your requirements, it is better to look towards mATX from Supermicro.
But if you need min 32 GB RAM + ECC + max ATX in size, then it's really difficult.

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navigator666, 2013-10-01
@navigator666

evnux I see that I'm not alone. And it pleases. As a result, for me the question is now simple: I
need a mini-itx board with USB 3.0 ports , two 1GbitEthernet ports, SATA 6Gbit ports and a mandatory vPro or equivalent.
By the way, now I looked for it ... They write that it has also been discontinued ... But, you can find it somewhere. Analogues of the newer ones from Intel are not to be seen.
And yet, after all, what PSU did you take for her?

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navion, 2013-10-04
@navion

Apple Mac Mini + Thunderbolt Ethernet, if you really need a second network card. ESXi works, albeit with some nuances during installation.

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D3xteR_svsk, 2014-05-07
@D3xteR_svsk

If not difficult, one could see a summary table of components or the name of the finished product. I'm interested in this issue myself.