Hello. First-time poster, long-time lurker. I'm looking for a system capable of running vmware ESXi/ Hypervisor (the freeware releases vmware provides).
I've seen the whitebox compatibility list, and while I build my own gaming pcs all the time, VMware is a vastly different beast, there's very specific network card and sata/sas controller requirements, if if you don't plan on running RAID for an ESX box.
So, I wanted to ask for advice, opinions, suggestions for either an affordable vmware whitebox config that has worked for you or an affordable pre-built server by any vendor you would recommend for running ESX... additionally do you need SAN/NAS to run virtual machines in ESX or can you use local storage? It's something I'm a bit confused on.
Thanks in advance.
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