I'm looking to build a single ESXi server (Free Edition for now) for home lab usage. I know the basics of what I'll be getting (Quad-core Ivy Bridge or Haswell / 32GB mem / quad-port NIC), but storage ...

In the current virtualization landscape and the foreseeable future, free offerings continue to make legitimate claims to datacenters of all sizes. I want to focus on the free version of VMware ESXi in ...

So I've been busily converting all our older and less utilized servers onto an ESXi box I built this week, and I'm hugely impressed with the results.<BR><BR>So much so that I'm seriously considering ...