ESXI Solution

[belowalthough]

Hi All

I am looking to build and home lab but do not know what CPU to go for. Xeon E3 / E5 or i7 or I5.

This will be going on an Mini-ITX Board with 16GB/32GB RAM and 2x SSD Drives for DataStores.

Any advice.

 

[OCP]

What OS's are you going to run? 32GB and 2x SSD's are not going to give you a lot to work with unless you are running *nix vm's

What about networking - you might want a few NIC's to play with also.

 

[belowalthough]

Server 2012, 2016, Windows 8, 10, Linux, going to run this will all be in 1 nice Domain once done

The Machine will have 1x 1GB NIC for now and i can always add an PCI Card to make it more redundant. I am just trying to plan the basics for now and then upgrade in the future

 

[CheddarByte]

Hi All

I am looking to build and home lab but do not know what CPU to go for. Xeon E3 / E5 or i7 or I5.

This will be going on an Mini-ITX Board with 16GB/32GB RAM and 2x SSD Drives for DataStores.

Any advice.

I'm using an i7 with 32Gb of ram in a cube pc which I run as a hypervisor.

ESX wouldn't work with my NIC (make sure you check nic compatability, it's very strict) so I ended up using XENserver.
Xenserver worked well, but then I ended up making the cube pc into a gaming pc, so now it just runs virtualbox on top of windows 7.

 

[belowalthough]

Ok cool thanks will check it out.

 

[Noah]

I guess a balance between singlethread performance and amount of cores.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html