OpenFerret Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Hi all, Taking advantage of all these cheap E5 2670 CPU's floating around (someone said that market has been flooded because of facebook decommissioning a data centre worth of boxes in order to upgrade?) Building a dual CPU box with a couple of these chips for about £800 (32 cores @ 2.4 GHz FTW!!!) and 32GB of RAM with room for a memory upgrade. Desired end state is to have a VM server for setting up labs. Can anyone recommend a free / cheap hypervisor with some form of management interface that would allow me to control vm creation, modification, snapshots, etc? Many thanks all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenFerret Posted June 6, 2016 Author Share Posted June 6, 2016 (p.s. If you haven't heard about these then check ebay. I've brought 2 x of these chips for £120 GBP with 30 day warranty). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Try the three main alternatives and decide which you prefer, ESXi, virtual box or hyperv. They are all good in different ways so I'd say give them all a go and see which you prefer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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