Minimum hardware requirements

Hello!!!

I'm new in the world of virtualization VMWare and I would like to know what are the requirements of minimum hardware requirements for the free ESXi hypervisor. I have a bunch of old computers and I would like to start playing with ESXi on them, but some of them are like Celeron366/128 MB Ram / 20GB HD, and I don't know how it will perform ESXi on those.

I tried to look at the documentation, but found nothing on the minimum requirements (only the ceilings).

Any tips?

Thank you

DGM

Welcome to the Forums - also before you start checking the hardware compatibility list (HCL from VMware) to ensure that your equipment is there that it will make your life easier - http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php. If this isn't there, you can see http://vm-help.com/ - it is a site with information on obtaining ESX to run on unsupported hardware

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