greengiant912 Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 So I was going to repurpose an old system to do this however the ram turned out to be too expensive.... DDR 2 is expensive compared to DDR3 right now :-\ Anyways anyone have a VM server? We have a few at work, and I would like to have a nice little setup at home for doing some practice, and have some stuff like a vent server, vpn, etc... ESXi is kinda picky about hardware I know... I want to do it on a cheaper side. I was thinking maybe an AMD build, havent done an AMD build in quite awhile. I plan on starting out with 16gb of ram, maybe moving up to 32gb eventually. This server wont be hosting anything mission critical its just for fun I really only need a CPU, RAM, Motherboard (onboard video). I was thinking of a budget of a few hundred.... Also I was thinking about network storage but its kinda expensive lol... Could build a FreeNAS server but I hear it can get expensive, and our freeNAS server here at work hasn't really worked that great (we got a SAN now for mission critical stuff).... Any recomendations on hardware. I plan on going over the HCL tonight on VMs site and picking out some stuff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengiant912 Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) So after reading around a bit I am kinda thinking about picking this up GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model x2 (16gb total) Also a decently good cheap power supply I dunno if I really need the 8 cores, but the price on that is pretty darn good... I was thinking possibly a 6core to cut the costs a little more... I only have a 4 core i7 in my main right right now too... The VMs are mostly going to be linux machines anyways so the overhead isn't going to be that huge... I do plan on running some other services on it as well... edit: the price difference isn't that much between the 8core and 6 core... Edited April 19, 2012 by greengiant912 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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