Building an ESXi whitebox

[dlots]

Sorry I didn't see this before, but you might look at old UCS boxes on ebay and see if anything tickles your fancy.  You can often get some pretty good boxes for super cheap

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cisco-UCS-M2-Dual-X5675-3-06GHZ-12x-15-12291-02-128GB-2x-146GB-HDD/163035776009?hash=item25f5b08409:g:y~UAAOSwlYRa7433

[wintermute000]

he tried that basically, not his fault the vendor lied on the spec!

[SimonV]

He offered me another one. DL385 with 130 GB RAM, but that's an AMD Opteron inside and I suppose not everything will be well supported. Now trying to get hem to swap the RAM

[SimonV]

Sorry I didn't see this before, but you might look at old UCS boxes on ebay and see if anything tickles your fancy.  You can often get some pretty good boxes for super cheap

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cisco-UCS-M2-Dual-X5675-3-06GHZ-12x-15-12291-02-128GB-2x-146GB-HDD/163035776009?hash=item25f5b08409:g:y~UAAOSwlYRa7433

There's a huge differences on US prices vs EU/UK prices, and importing usually incurs additional taxes and VAT.  And there's a different in PSU voltage also.

[wintermute000]

Don't go Opteron. You'll have various issues with virt. Maybe Epyc will be better in a few years, but definitely no-no on 6 year old AMD if you want it to 'just work' with stuff.

[SimonV]

He agreed to give me 128 GB of RAM so I can keep the Xeon box

[icecream-guy]

He agreed to give me 128 GB of RAM so I can keep the Xeon box

Schweet!!!!!!