Hardware selection ESXI 6.5?

Question

Iron

Good afternoon everyone, we decided to move from mammoth ESXI 6.5 intel dg45id + Intel Xeon E5450 8 GB RAM to more recent hardware

MSI B250M MORTAR (LAN Intel I219-V)
Intel Core i5-7400 BOX LGA 1151
16 GB RAM

Knowing how ESXI is picky about hardware Does anyone have any advice on where to go wrong?

Answer 1

There is nothing easier, open the VMware Compatibility Guide and look for your equipment there

Answer 2

the main problem is ... setevukha! if you do not want adventures, then look towards Intel. an average of 5000 per piece). also pay attention to the minimum system requirements for the hypervisor. well, then ... walk your soul and crack your wallet)

Answer 3

Nifiga he is not picky - you just need to be able to cram firewood into the distribution for those devices that may not be there. And this, as quite rightly noted, is network cards and SCSI controllers. Compatibility with the VmWare Compatibility Guide is needed if, firstly, it is purchased, and secondly, if something happens, you want to have a support mosk.
And so I just didn’t start it on anything. By the way, it is on the MSI gaming series that there can be non-illusory problems - that's how I put the hyper on the MSI X99A XPOWER AC There
is not enough memory - of course, the Linux server will work, but the current Windows ...

Answer 4

network card : https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/det...
On the storage controller, probably a soft RAID - ESX needs a hard one. What exactly MSI put there - you can read on the board.