lvaibhavt Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Hi All, I am planning to buy a custom desktop for my home lab. Below are the configurations that I am planning to buy Processor = i7 5820k Motherboard = Gigabyte x99 SLI RAM = Corsair 2133 8GB card * 8 = 64GB SMPS = Cooler Master 750 W My aim is to install Windows 7 x64 ; then install VMware Workstation and run multiple machines. Will this configuration support esxi 6 and Hyper V 2012.? Is 750W SMPS good enough ? or should I choose 850W? Thanks Vaibhav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Yeah it'll be fine. FYI - ESXi is a type 1 hypervisor, so you won't be able to install Windows on the host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvaibhavt Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 I will be running VMware Workstation 12 and inside it I will run esxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 lol Nested VMs, then yeah you'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted February 12, 2016 MVC Share Posted February 12, 2016 How many Virtual Machines are you planning to run, of what type etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted February 12, 2016 Veteran Share Posted February 12, 2016 I'm a little biased but why not just install Hyper-V and be done with it? Seems a bit of a faff to install workstation to run ESXi inside to run more VMs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted February 12, 2016 MVC Share Posted February 12, 2016 Yeah don't really get the nested?? Why not just run esxi directly on the hardware or sure Hyper-V?? As to supported - you can run on a lot less hardware than that, all comes down to how many vms you want to run all at once, and what exactly those vms will be doing and how fast you want them to do it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony_may Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Depends on how many VMs you want to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan R. Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 My main desktop is used for gaming while running my media server and test VMs in the background in Hyper-V. This is with Windows 10 as the host. Specs are in my signature, but sure that processor and memory will do fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted February 18, 2016 Veteran Share Posted February 18, 2016 As said will depend on how many VM's you want to run a few fine a hundred well might start to push it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.grz Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 On 2/12/2016 at 6:01 AM, BudMan said: Yeah don't really get the nested?? Why not just run esxi directly on the hardware or sure Hyper-V?? As to supported - you can run on a lot less hardware than that, all comes down to how many vms you want to run all at once, and what exactly those vms will be doing and how fast you want them to do it.. Because with nested hyper visors you can practice setting up a cluster with shared storage without having to get all the equipment to do so. Well, that's the reason I did it. Had a three node ESXi 5.x cluster with all the bells and whistles running on my desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted March 9, 2016 Veteran Share Posted March 9, 2016 40 minutes ago, c.grz said: Because with nested hyper visors you can practice setting up a cluster with shared storage without having to get all the equipment to do so. Well, that's the reason I did it. Had a three node ESXi 5.x cluster with all the bells and whistles running on my desktop. Get hold of Server 2016? That offers support for Nested Hyper-Visors now I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.grz Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 12 minutes ago, Skiver said: Get hold of Server 2016? That offers support for Nested Hyper-Visors now I believe. You can do it in Windows 10 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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