I'm watching an online course on building a virtual QA lab, and watching the instructor installing ESXi into a VMWare Fusion VM. Kooky.

I'm going to hardwire my house, and have been tempted to make my laptop my desktop system and use my desktop as an ESXi host. It's a Dell T3400 workstation with a 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, 8 GB of RAM, onboard Intel RAID and right now it's got mirrored 2TB drives. I'd probably get a 3rd drive and make it a RAID 5.

I know there's at least one person running an ESXi setup in their house. I'd love to hear any comments about how happy you are with it, you back up the
host OS, any maintenance issues you run into?

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Re: VMWare ESXi
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Tue Feb 28 2017 09:10 am

I'm watching an online course on building a virtual QA lab, and watching the instructor installing ESXi into a VMWare Fusion VM. Kooky.

I'm going to hardwire my house, and have been tempted to make my laptop my desktop system and use my desktop as an ESXi host. It's a Dell T3400 workstation with a 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, 8 GB of RAM, onboard Intel RAID and right now it's got mirrored 2TB drives. I'd probably get a 3rd drive and make it a RAID 5.

I know there's at least one person running an ESXi setup in their house. I'd love to hear any comments about how happy you are with it, you back up the host OS, any maintenance issues you run into?

You should go with something with a better processor and memory if you want
to start running vms with esxi
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You should go with something with a better processor and memory if you want to start running vms with esxi

I seem to recall that it needs at least a Core i5 or i7, and that a Core 2 duo/quad won't cut it.

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I have used ESXi for a very long time and it needs little hardware to run, and handles different VMs very well. You can certainly overprovision your CPUs and memory and as long as the processes across VMs don't need full CPU allocation simultaneously it'll handle things just fine.

Installing ESXi on a USB key is useful for reserving space on your hard drives too, should you decide to go that route. Also, get version 6.0.1 or higher as that contains the built-in web client which has been necessary since forever.

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Re: VMWare ESXi
By: Poindexter Fortran to Mro on Wed Mar 01 2017 07:30 am

You should go with something with a better processor and memory if you want to start running vms with esxi

I seem to recall that it needs at least a Core i5 or i7, and that a Core 2 duo/quad won't cut it.

well it doesnt need that muscle, but it should probably have it and also have plenty of memory
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Re: VMWare ESXi
By: Noisome to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Mar 01 2017 12:01 pm

Installing ESXi on a USB key is useful for reserving space on your hard drives too, should you decide to go that route. Also, get version 6.0.1 or higher as that contains the built-in web client which has been necessary since forever.

The USB key is a great idea. I ran an ESX host for people who had Macs but needed a Windows VM for occasional use, then we got a deal on VMWare Fusion. Loved the idea of a bare-metal host.

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Re: VMWare ESXi
By: Poindexter Fortran to Noisome on Wed Mar 01 2017 09:01 pm

The USB key is a great idea. I ran an ESX host for people who had Macs but needed a Windows VM for occasional use, then we got a deal on VMWare Fusion. Loved the idea of a bare-metal host.

proxmox isnt bad either.
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proxmox isnt bad either.

I was going to propose it too, been using this on my setup for years and it's solid and reliable.

I have several vm running on my box including my bbs and it's been working flawlessly for years. Nice gui for management etc.

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