I wanted to put this into the Server Room forum, but I've seen "You should place PC builds into the CPU forum" many times, so here I am. My goal is to build an entire ESXi 5 environment within VMware ...

I'm looking to build a single ESXi server (Free Edition for now) for home lab usage. I know the basics of what I'll be getting (Quad-core Ivy Bridge or Haswell / 32GB mem / quad-port NIC), but storage ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...