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Core i7 8 x logical CPUs (Quad core with HyperThreading)<\/p>\n 240GB OSZ SSD drive<\/p>\n So the first thing I wanted to test is a nested version of ESXi as the whole point of a mobile lab is to run a virtual infrastructure. Previously it was possible on my old system (dual core, 8GB ram, SATA) but it ran like a dog, and painful to boot up. In fact for demo purposes we would have all the VMs on standby otherwise it meant waiting an extra 30 minutes for boot up.<\/p>\n First thing I did was haggle with Dell for a while to get the price down to nearly 50% of the RRP. After my hardware arrived I had a bit of fun cloning the preinstalled SATA disk to my new SSD drive.<\/p>\n Next I got VMware Workstation installed and then created a ESX VM.<\/p>\n Now the first thing I noticed was the install time for ESXi nested in a VMware workstation VM was ridiculasly fast.<\/p>\n The next thing I noticed was to boot up time was stupid fast. In fact it boots faster than my physical lab servers running ESXi<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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