ESXi Upgrade on Home Server
My home computer setup was starting to show its age. My previous setup was a pair of Core2Duo class systems each with 4GB of DDR2 RAM. One functioned as a server running ESXi 5, and the other as a gaming rig with a pretty slick ATI Radeon 6850. The gaming rig did just fine for most modern games with that video card, but the ESXi server was over-taxed when trying to run anything more than a couple small Linux VMs. I read about folks having success with "whitebox" ESXi servers at thehomeserverblog.com , and figured I'd follow suit. I purchased a Gigabyte 970A-UD3P motherboard, AMD FX8350 CPU, and 32 GB of Gskill DDR3 RAM from Newegg. In retrospect I probably should have forked over the extra dough for the 990 chipset, but C'est la vie. I got everything hooked up and my VMs migrated over, when I noticed that my CPU and memory stats were nearly idle. Even after installing a couple of Windows 2k8 R2 VMs that had struggled before. I looked over thehomeserverblog