After posting the last post on creating a two thousand general purpose server using VMWare’s ESXi software hyper-visor, I thought some would like to know more about the hyper-visor software, as well as how to get it started up and running.
ESXi can be downloaded free from http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/

This video from the Hak5 group at http://revision3.com/hak5 shows how to build a general pupose server using VMWare’s ESXi system for under two grand including all new hardware with 3 TB of storage, 4 core processor and 8 GB of RAM.  For those curious about building a low maintenance, low cost server for small to [...]