iSCSI NAS supporting VMware Esxi 5.1 servers in a software development environment

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Published on 2012-11-21T21:02:07Z Indexed on 2012/11/21 23:01 UTC
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I would like to build (or purchase) the smallest, quietest most energy efficient servers that I can for a low demand environment. These would only have a small disk for guest swap files, a CPU (XEON preferred), 32 Gb of memory and minimal graphics. The virtual machines need to be up but demand will be quite low.

Any thought on case, format processors, fans, motherboard, et al? Small, quiet and lots of RAM are the operative words here.

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