Hi all,
I am currently using my HP Microserver NL36 to run ESXi 5.0 for virtualisation which is fine, however, I have been pondering the idea of building another host however this time using components rather than a pre-built machine.
Could anyone recommend a good economical but good CPU when it needs to do work for this? I plan to have around 4-8 VMs possibly using it, I was thinking something like a Q6600 but wasnt sure if this would be to power thirsty.
Idea's appriciated thanks, I want something with either a good dual core, or quad core, which I can then expand on to use in line with say 16GB or more RAM.
I am currently using my HP Microserver NL36 to run ESXi 5.0 for virtualisation which is fine, however, I have been pondering the idea of building another host however this time using components rather than a pre-built machine.
Could anyone recommend a good economical but good CPU when it needs to do work for this? I plan to have around 4-8 VMs possibly using it, I was thinking something like a Q6600 but wasnt sure if this would be to power thirsty.
Idea's appriciated thanks, I want something with either a good dual core, or quad core, which I can then expand on to use in line with say 16GB or more RAM.
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