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Processor: Intel Xeon X3450 2.66GHz with HT/VT-x and VT-d Processor Cooling: Corsair CWCH100 Hydro Series H100 Cooler Processor Cooling Fans: 2 x Noctua NF-P12 Motherboard: Supermicro X8SIL-F-O Server Board RAM: Kingston 4 x 8GB Case: Lian-Li PC-V350B Case Noise Dampening: AcoustiPack LITE (APL) Multi-Layered Soundproof Material Case Backplate: Custom backplate to incorporate moving PSU to the right and adding 120mm exhaust fanĥ.25″ Drive Bay Cooling: Evercool Armour ATX HDD Cool Box HD-AR 5.25″ Drive Bay Cooling Fan: Noctua NF-R8-1800Ĭase Exhaust Fan : 1 x Noctua NF-P12 Case Exhaust Fan Guard: 120mm Standard Wire Case Fan Guard Grill At the end I kinda had enough and decided to build a custom server which would address all of the issues above. vswp files hence why I put them on SSD which helped only to certain extent. 8GB of RAM is tight and ESXi was paging the VMs like mad to. CPU Ready is going through the roof quite often due to AMD Athlon II Neo 1.30GHz processor which is just slightly better performer compared to Intel Atom range. vswp files), rest of the storage needs is provided by QNAP TS-509 NAS (by means of NFS and iSCSI) This setup has been absolutely flawlessly so far but there is simply not enough RAM and CPU power for my needs (or rather my VMs). Disk space wise, there is only 30 GB Vertex SSD for few VMs (and. Great machine for the money and with cost of around £120 (after the cash back) it was an absolute bargain at the time! Box itself has been upgraded to 8GB of DDR3 RAM (maximum the motherboard can take) and its running ESXi 4.1 U1 absolutely fine. I have been entertaining HP ProLiant MicroServer N36L for nearly a year now.