Comments on: VMware ESX on a Whitebox

By: Gigabit Converter

Gigabit Converter — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:57:04 +0000

You have described everything except the pricing, how much it would be.

By: DeSchans.org » VMware ESX whitebox

DeSchans.org » VMware ESX whitebox — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:41:58 +0000

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By: Abyss

Abyss — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:34:48 +0000

Hi Guys,

Did the HP Compaq DC5100 SFF work well as per the d530 ?

Thanks

By: davidt

davidt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:59:18 +0000

a note to my above comment. the xw6000 does not work, can’t remember why. but the HP xw4100 does work just fine.

By: davidt

davidt — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:32:39 +0000

i had a few hp dc5100 SFF (small form factor) desktops laying around at work and thought i would see if ESX3.5 would run on them. i read somewhere that a compaq 530 (or something) would run ESX no problem, and the specs were very similar, so i was hopeful.

good news, it works perfect.

HP dc5100 SFF (mini tower should work fine, too)
P4 3.2GHz
4GB RAM (maximum i could put in)
built in SATA, LAN and video

i also tried it on a dc5000 but it did not work fully as it is PATA only.

i tried it on the dc5700 and dc5800 and, even though they are SATA, it didn’t work. i think i also got an incompatible network chipset message as well.

i am going to go through the remaining assortment of machines at work like an xw6000 (not hopeful).

By: carlp

carlp — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:14:43 +0000

I bought some failry cheap desktop components and built a VMware ESX 3.5 server with no problems.
Asus P5KC atx mobo – $110
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 – $215
PC6400 8GB RAM – $160
4x320GB SATA drives – $55 each
Intel Pro 1000MT dual giga nic (PCI-express) – $40 (eBay)
LSI PCI-express 8344ELP SATA SAS RAID for drives – $155 (eBay) (put in 16x slot)
Works great woth no mods (although i made sure to enable BIOS VT).
Installed on Raid 0 and another RAID 0 for VMs.

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cd-k.de » Blog Archive » ESX Server auf Standardhardware — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:10:18 +0000

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Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:58:25 +0000

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By: afokkema

afokkema — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:27:45 +0000

Hello Jeff,

That are a lot of questions .

The Asus P5M2/SAS works very well with VI3 (any version). But it’s a very expensive board.
If you only wants to test the new features from VI3, than you can also build two cheap servers with one ide harddisk for the service console and a iSCSI box (see my earlier post about OpenFiler http://ictfreak.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/vi3-with-iscsi-by-openfiler-iscsi-appliance/).

With this setup you are able to test:
• VMotion
• DRS
• HA
• VCB

So basically you can test everything!!

What you need for this setup is two identical boxes with the same CPU!!, lots of RAM (I use cheap Kingston ddr(2) ram and it works fine), and two or more gigabit Ethernet devices.

I hope this will help you out.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:36:01 +0000

I see this is from january? I would like to try th NEWEST ESX Virtual Infrastructure, I woould like to test Vmotion, DRS, And HA, Does anybody know if the ASUS P5M2/SAS would work for this? Also I have workstations, using regualr DDR RAm and athlon X2 4800+ with SATA drives and ONBOARD RAID, from what i have read and beleive to be true no CHEAP software RAID (built into motherboard, nforce 4 chipset) would work? What is the chepaest RTAID controller that would work For RAID 0, 1 or 5 doesn’t matter this is just a testing/learning machine. I would like to do this cheaply so I can learn, it doesn’t have to be Super high performance, but would like to play with a ll the features, including Vmotion and DRS (“balloning”) and high availability, I plan on skipping switches and using crossover cables, cheap (but works with VI gig-e and RAID cards ) any suggestions? Also do you need to have “server ram” or can i use ddr with athlonx2/socket939 machines i have laying around, any hacks or workarounds would be appreciated..!!
Jeff
jeffp1ATgmailDOTcom (remove CAPS for spam bots) Unfortuntely I only speak english and some spanish ,
I would really appreciate any help very much !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You