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Anyone had any experience of doing this? Putting it here as its a small form factor PC question rather than server talk.
ESXi on Intel NUC
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What are you planning on using it for?
You aren't going to be running many VMs on a NUC before storage,cpu and ram become a bottleneck
You aren't going to be running many VMs on a NUC before storage,cpu and ram become a bottleneck
There is a good article here on building a nuc nano lab.
http://www.tekhead.org/blog/2013/01/nanolab-running-vmware-vsphere-on-intel-nuc-part-1/
http://www.tekhead.org/blog/2013/01/nanolab-running-vmware-vsphere-on-intel-nuc-part-1/
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Yes we have tried both ESXi and XenServer on multiple i5 4th GEN NUCs and it works fine.
Having access to 16GB RAM per NUC and 4 cores is great, particularly when you get several working together for redundancy. Only thing is you really need 2 NICs per unit for network redundancy.
Having access to 16GB RAM per NUC and 4 cores is great, particularly when you get several working together for redundancy. Only thing is you really need 2 NICs per unit for network redundancy.
Just got my D54250WYKH this morning, and it's an awesome - especially when you open the box it comes in 
Fitted 16GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD and an 8GB SanDisk Cruzer USB stick. ESXi is installed on the USB stick, and I've set the HDD up as a datastore to which I'm currently copying ISO images of the operating systems I want to run.
It's a shame that Intel only position these things as desktop class machines with a single NIC.
Fitted 16GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD and an 8GB SanDisk Cruzer USB stick. ESXi is installed on the USB stick, and I've set the HDD up as a datastore to which I'm currently copying ISO images of the operating systems I want to run.
It's a shame that Intel only position these things as desktop class machines with a single NIC.
Were you thinking of doing something like this?
http://deploymentbunny.com/2014/09/28/building-next-gen-datacenter-the-pelicase-portable-datacenter
http://deploymentbunny.com/2014/09/28/building-next-gen-datacenter-the-pelicase-portable-datacenter
I wasn't, but I am now!Were you thinking of doing something like this?
