Whitebox VM Lab & OpenSolaris with napp-it All-in-One
Building an ESXi whitebox VM lab on an ASRock 970 Extreme4 with a BR10i passed through, serving an OpenIndiana napp-it ZFS NFS datastore.
Building an ESXi whitebox VM lab on an ASRock 970 Extreme4 with a BR10i passed through, serving an OpenIndiana napp-it ZFS NFS datastore.
Planning an all-in-one ZFS SAN/NAS with OpenIndiana and napp-it, using an IBM BR10i flashed to IT mode and ESXi or XenServer.
Hardware list for an ESXi 5 whitebox build, with notes on its NIC support and the free edition's 32GB RAM limit.
A 2011 home server parts list (Athlon II X4, 16GB RAM, five drives) intended for testing ESXi 4.1.