Windows 2008 Server on VMWare (hardware)
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I want to setup a single server to run a few virtual servers for our datacenter. I do not have a lot of money to spend so I am trying to gain bang for the buck. My budget is around $2,000.
So I was thinking about building the following as the VMWare physical server:
- Intel iCore 7 950 (LGA1366, 4 cores,8 threads)
- Gigabyte GA-X58-USB3 LGA 1366 X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
- 24 GB of Viper II Series, Sector 7 Edition, Extreme Performance DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 Triple Channel Memory
- VelociRaptor 300GB 10,000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
I am planning on running the newest version of VMWare ESXi (64-bit).
On these I am planning on running a few various servers:
- Windows 2008 Server R2 w/ IIS (several custom built ASP.NET Apps)
- Windows 2008 Server R2 w/ MS SQL 2008 Database Server
- Linux Web Server w/ Several WordPress Blogs (XAMPP?)
- Windows 2008 Server R2 w/ IIS (DEV ENVIRONMENT)
- Windows 2008 Server R2 w/ MS SQL 2008 Database Server (DEV ENVIRONMENT)
In your opinion, will this hardware be sufficient to run the above load with room for possible 2-3 more virtual machines (probably lightweight web servers)?
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