Spec me a Hypervisor

Solaris

Solaris

Solaris

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So I'm looking to move a bunch of my VMs off my main desktop onto a dedicated rig.

This is all personal stuff so not looking for enterprise level hardware.

I have an ATX case already, nothing special but it will do the job. And an Antec 550w PSU which again, will be adequate.

Only requirement is 32GB RAM and a CPU that isn't going to grind to a screaming halt under a little pressure, these machines won't be running anything super intensive so super fast processor isn't needed.

I'd also like it to be as cheap as possible, and consume as little power as possible.

Ideas?
 
You really want to check every CPU and hardware against their HCL:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

When we deploy a new VMWare server, reliability, compatibility and stability comes first then we are looking for processing power. You really want some RAID setup and the ability to swap LUNs without shutting down etc.

A cool concept is to run the hypervisor from an SDCard (yes a memory chip) and have external storage (like a NAS) connected via iSCSI or other means. This way you can use the failover abilities of VMWare and share one storage (costs at least the Essentials Licence).
 
Ewwwww VMWare? What are you taking me for?

I'll be running KVM on top of CentOS, hardware compatibility isn't an issue in this. It's for home use so reliability and stability aren't an issue.

iSCSI is overkill, we use it on out HVs at work, but I'm not looking for storage redundancy either. Nothing running on this will be super mission-critical, it's going to be sitting under my bed most likely XD
 
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