Today, early afternoon I got (little bit late Christmas gift from Santa Claus 🙂 ) my brand new workstation to my LAB, finally, and my old laptop can rest 🙂 . I bought completely new workstation with 16GB RAM, SSD disk and so on.Later on, when prices for HDDs get down, now HHDs prices are insane due to flood in Thailand, I will buy 4 x 1TB SATA III disks and create RAID 1+ 0 but for the moment 300GB single drive must be enough.
Below specification:
- CPU –Â Intel XEON E3-1225 – 4 x 3.1 GHz
Technical specs - MOBO – ASUS P8Z68-V LX
Technical specs - HDD – OCZ Agility SSD drive 120GB SATA III (525MB/500MB, 55k IOPS write, 85k IOPS read)
Technical specs - RAM- Kingstone 16GB (4x4GB) RAM PC1600 – KHX1600C9D3X2K2
Technical specs - Power supply – PURE POWER 430W
- LG DVDÂ recorder
- OS – Ubuntu 11.10 x64 and VMware workstation 8.0.1
- Cost – 660 EUR
[box type=”info”] Useful links:
- How to set up home lab for vSphere 4 and vSphere 5
- vSphere home LAB in a single box
- Remote access to LAB
- Tested hardware to run ESXi4.1 ESXi5.0 and ESXi5.1[/box]
Im curious about running almost the same setup as you are running, but i thought about running Esxi5 directly on the server & then run 2*virtual esxi5 on it. I will use my NAS as storage with ISCSI.
What worries me the most is that the xeon processor will not work on the Asus motherboard, do you have the revision number on yours? Because i can’t find anywhere on Asus site that the motherboard support Xeon e3 processors even though you obviously have it running just fine.
Any alternative processors than the one that is listed, probably something cheaper?