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 ...

They each have their strengths, but Proxmox is far better for my use case ...

I touched on this a few months back, but getting closer to actually moving ahead with it at long last. At home, I currently run a ZFS storage array (Box A) as a guest on an ESX host. I've now acquired ...

Whenever buying new hardware, it's all too easy to get caught in the "bigger number better" mantra and lose sight of which specifications are the important ones. I'm not immune to that misstep, and ...