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[Solved] Need Configuration for virtulization support

Forum CPU & Components : Servers [Solved] Need Configuration for virtulization support

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Hello,
i am looking for best configuration for VMWARE ESXi 5 which support for more Virtual machines

i am looking to install sharepoint2010 cluster, Storage using Openfiler or freenas, Active directory configuration

Please suggest me with Good Mother board & best processor
with average budjet

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According to vmware, they recommend any processor that is ESX compatable: Intel Xeon 51xx, 53xx, and 54xx series...

So ur talking heavy duty, along with a ton of ram, depending on how many vmachines you want to run.

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I7-2600
Asus p8z68-v/gen 3.

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For virtualization go for i7-2600 cpu (run away from the k versions, they don't have some virtualization resources)

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