ESX Build

[Sharlaw]

Hi Guys,

Looking for some advice for an ESX build.

This is going to be used to demo/train on some appliance software.

This will be running roughly 10 VM's of this appliance software.


Each hardware appliance usually runs a Xeon E31220, with 4 Gb Memory.

But for this purpose the memory could be scaled down to 512Mb-1Gb Per VM.

Disk speed is important so ideally an SSD for primary Storage.

Thanks in advance

 

[Sharlaw]

Would be ESXi, as would need to be taken on site for training at customer locations.

A PE2950 may be a bit on the large size, was hoping to get something that would be able to be taken on site.

 

[Sharlaw]

The VM's we'll be running are virtual load balancing appliances so will need 10 individual versions.
And yes I totally agree that carrying a unit like this far from ideal, but most of the sites/customers we will be dealing with are really locked down and this way we can have a pre-built training environment we can bring in and keep disconnected from their internal systems.