AMD FX for esxi? good move?

zeegy · 9 Aug 2012 at 12:21

Hi all,

Im wanting to build an ESXi server, and from what i have read it seems that the core requirement is ram, lots and lots of Ram.

I have seen that people are running esx on their hp microservers which have pretty underpowered CPU's

I have a case, some hdds and a psu lying around. so ive bene looking for bundles (cpu, mobo and ram) to complete the package and deploy an ESXi server.

I have found a AMD Bulldozer FX-4100 4 Core and 16Gb of Ram for as little as £150. would this be good enough to run ESXi on? or are there any better reccomendations?

zeegy · 9 Aug 2012 at 13:11

and the cpu? suitable?

zeegy · 9 Aug 2012 at 18:33

that has crossed my mind. ive read the reviews on the bulldozer and people said, well not much point, get an i5. but for numerous vms, this is probably more where the AMD Can excel. thanks for the input though, may be able to stetch to a hex core.

zeegy · 9 Aug 2012 at 18:42

from what i can see, i can seem to source the fx8 components for cheaper than the phen x6

zeegy · 9 Aug 2012 at 18:43

mobo, x8 cpu and 16gb ram, approx £230

zeegy · 13 Aug 2012 at 12:22

GaryH-21 said:
What are you planning on running? (sorry If i've missed it )

I'm not being funny here... but i've ran exsi with 4GB ram and an old intel processor on an old Dell that work didn't use anymore, and ran Windows and OpenBSD machines no bother... so 16GB? yeah, you'll be more than fine, and the processor will do the job!

didnt disclose it,

minimum of a windows 7 client, a windows xp client, a win2k8r2 server running MsSQL and an ubuntu server running MySQL - ideally, all at the same time.