February 18, 201313 yr Hi Guys, This probably does not belong here but this question is about a motherboard for ESXi and I know we have number of people using Johnm's excellect build. So I was hoping for few recommendations. I am looking to build a BIG ESXi box for my lab. From personal experience and research, RAM seems to be the limiting factor on how many VMs you can run. Every LGA 1155 motherboard have I come across has a limit of 32GB RAM. Now, I know that LGA 2011 boards can access upto 256GB RAM using RDIMMS. Anyone have any suggestions / recommendation about which board to get? I found the following 2 boards at NewEgg: SuperMicro X9SRI-F and SuperMicro X9SRA Anyone have any favorites? How about a cheap CPU that will allow me to 64-bit VMs? thanks for the help
February 18, 201313 yr Just an FYI, the maximum RAM you can use with a free ESXi Hypervisor license is 32GB. It won't even boot with more than that. So if you want to use more you're going to have to pay for an vSphere Essentials license.
February 18, 201313 yr Author We have an enterprise deal with vmware so we get a pseudo lab license that should be okay. I can nail confirm with the program coordinator though. Nice catch Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using TapTalk 2
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