{"id":673,"date":"2015-04-24T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.28.118.115\/?p=673"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:53:13","slug":"whitebox-esxi-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/24\/whitebox-esxi-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitebox ESXi Host"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been considering\u00a0\u00a0building an ESXi host for home to move my VMs off of Vmware workstation on my Windows 7 Desktop. I wanted something powerful but in a small form factor and uses a relatively low amount of electricity. Well… I think I’m almost there.
\nI’ll update this as I can with performance but so far I’m happy with the results. Right now I have 4 VMs running including PRTG, OpenVPN, and Zoneminder. So far I am pleased.
\nI have ESXi 5.5 running off of a flash drive.
\nPhysical Components:
\n(from Amazon)
\nShuttle – SH87R6<\/a>\u00a0(You’ll have to inject the NIC driver for the Realtek hardware into the 5.5 image to use the onboard NIC. So far it seems to work great.)
\nIntel Core i7-4790S Processor<\/a> (8M Cache, 3.2 GHz)
\n4x Seagate 500GB Laptop SATA 7200RPM 32MB Cache 2.5-Inch HDD (configured in RAID 10)
\n2x PNY XLR8 DDR3 16GB (2x8GB) 1600MHz (PC3-12800)(Four DIMMS total for 32GB)
\nLSI MegaRAID 256MB SAS RAID Controller MR SAS 8888ELP w\/ LSIIBBU05(from eBay, pulled from some HP)
\n\"Screen-Shot-2015-04-24-at-5.46.52-PM\"<\/a>
\n 
\n\"Screen<\/a>Hardware monitoring looks good
\n\"Screen<\/a>
\nWhen backing up my VMs I had an interesting network graph that sort of looks like Michigan
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I’ve been considering\u00a0\u00a0building an ESXi host for home to move my VMs off of Vmware workstation on my Windows 7 Desktop. I wanted something powerful but in a small form factor and uses a relatively low amount of electricity. Well… I think I’m almost there. I’ll update this as I can with performance but so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}