What material you choose for a new server

Hello everyone.

I intend to set up a new server at home, mainly for use with ESXi 4, but perhaps also use it (with a different, without the use of ESXi HARD disk) as video occasional treatment / game machine.

My main concern at the moment is the part of the equation ESXi. The plan is to have no more than 10 virtual machines running simultaneously (a mixture of servers windows and linux workstations, windows) for development and testing. I'm not under a Bank, so it is not crucial for the system until 24 x 7, but I need a fast and reliable system to work with (as inexpensive as possible though). I searched around for the material, but I must say that I am a bit confused. I am open to proposals from scratch, but here's what I've found so far and the questions I have.

1. a single i5 or i7 processor will be enough? How many virtual machines an i7 CPU can manage without the feeling that you are using a 1st generation Pentium? I don't know of virtual machines running large databases and development tools (Visual Studio mainly). It would be best to use a double connector MB Xeon or it's too? My choice would be something between i7 - 930 and dual Xeon 5520 or 5620. Also, I would be able to cover future needs (i.e. it would be nice to not throw the entire system 5 years from now, for having been too slow).

2. I think using a dedicated raid controller (specifically Adaptec RAID 5805) but with SATA disks (4x1TB in RAID50) or maybe 6x1TB in RAID60. It would be a good solution (in speed)? Should I start looking for solutions SAS?

As you can imagine, the cost of all these components is a little high then if I have to make this move, I want to be as sure as possible that I have I don't get too small for my needs, but also that I have I don't get too. As I said before, I'm open to any suggestion.

Thanks for any comment on this case.

Relative to the CPU, it depends on your loads of comments.  But with SATA RAID, the bottleneck is much more likely to be there IMO.

FWIW, two quad-core Nehalem servers are sometimes "nominal" to 30 virtual machines, but without knowing the charge is pure speculation.

If you are looking to deploy 1 vCPU customer, a unique quad will most likely very well.  Using vSMP translates into more physical cores (or at least hyperthreading) being necessary to avoid CPU scheduling delays.

Re disc - Yes each LUN has a maximum size of (2 TB - 512 bytes).  You can create a very large data warehouses using extensions (or simply use several data warehouses), but the underlying storage MUST be able to present the LUN meets the criteria of 2 TB.  While most of the RAID controllers will provide more than one set of RAID-5 LUN, a lot will not be permitted RAID-10 to split, where my comment.  Of course, you should check the documentation for any controller you choose on this point, but it's something to know.

HTH

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