Home Lab Setup for VSphere and Horizon

[SrijitB]

Hi,

I am planning for a budget home lab setup for working on both server and desktop visualization. But I want to achieve this under a tight budget. I have thought of the following configuration. I want suggestions on this and shall i make any change on this configurations?

Open Filer:

Intel Atom Processor

4 GB RAM

1 TB + 1 TB HDD

16 GB Boot Drive (Pen Drive)

DLink 1 gig NIC

VCenter Server:

Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz Processor

4 GB Ram

250 GB HDD

DLink 1 gig NIC

ESX Server - 1:

Intel Core i5-4430 Processor

Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H Motherboard

8 GB DDR3 RAM

2 X DLink 1 gig NIC

16 GB Boot Drive (Pen Drive)

ESX Server - 2:

Intel Core i5-4430 Processor

Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H Motherboard

8 GB DDR3 RAM

2 X DLink 1 gig NIC

16 GB Boot Drive (Pen Drive)

Using HP x705w 16 GB Pendrive as Boot Drives

[Abhilash Basavarajaiah]

Sounds good.

I'm a little doubtful about the Dlink NIC's for ESXi. Why not go for ones which are supported? I have seen a lot of people who complain that Dlink NICs stopped working from 5.0 onwards.

If you have a plan or a workaround you can use Dlink NICs.

[SrijitB]

I know that. Unfortunately those NICs are not supported by VMWare. So added custom vib to enable them. I am using them in my current setup. So, there will be no problem. Other than that any problems?

[Abhilash Basavarajaiah]

If you have it working i do not see any other problems.