{"id":16,"date":"2011-01-27T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remotelan.net\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-01-27T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:44:10","slug":"first-esxi-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"First ESXi Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided that I need to build myself a home ESXi server in order to consolodate my old physical servers I have. Using older hardware and doing very few properly managed backups, I’ve lost important data more then once. My goal here will be to build a more stable environment to run my servers and also expand and try out new ideas and solution within the virtualied environment.
\nLast week, I began ordering the parts that I will use for the new server build. I will also be using some old parts from previously built servers that are either laying arround or currently running and will soon be replaced.
\nHere are the new parts:
\nPower supply: Antec TruPower 550W<\/a> (90$)
\nHard drive: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB <\/a>(105$)
\nMotherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O<\/a>\u00a0(195$)
\nProcessor: Intel Xeon X3440 Lynnfield 2.53GHz\u00a0Quad-Core <\/a>(240$)
\nRAM:\u00a02x Kingston 4GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 ECC<\/a>\u00a0(107$)
\nUSB Key: Kingston DataTraveler G3 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive<\/a>\u00a0(7$)
\nCase fan: 2x APEVIA CF8S 80mm<\/a> (3$)
\nI am planning on reusing the following hardware:
\nCase: AOpen Custom PC
\nHard drives: 4x Seagate Barracuda ST3500320AS 500GB
\nHard drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda ST3160812AS 160GB<\/span>
\nRAID controller: HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II (3.0Gb\/s) Controller Card<\/a>\u00a0(130$)
\nHard drive cage: COOLER MASTER STB-3T4-E3-GP 4-in-3 Device Module Hardisk Cage<\/a>\u00a0(24$)
\nI will document my build process once all the parts arrive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided that I need to build myself a home ESXi server in order to consolodate my old physical servers I have. Using older hardware and doing very few properly managed backups, I’ve lost important data more then once. My goal here will be to build a more stable environment to run my servers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remotelan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}