Supermicro H8DME-2 & Opteron 2218

mapletune

I'm getting this from someone next week.

1x Supermicro H8DME-2
2x Opteron 2218 with 2U heatsink/fans
4x 1G ECC Reg
4x 2G ECC Reg

I'm thinking: since this board has nVidia MCP55 chipset, and Opteron is supported by vmware...

What do you guys think? Good enough for vmware lab?

Essendon

All you really need is Virtualization Support available and turned on in the BIOS. More the RAM and multiple disks, the better it is. Sometimes you need to update the BIOS to be able to see the option to turn on VT-x. 12GB of RAM should be enough to get you started. Chuck on ESXi 5 and nest multiple ESXi VM's inside of the physical host. That way you can give those virtual ESXi servers shared storage too. Lab away!

JDMurray

The Opteron 2218 does support virtualization (AMD-V) and, like Essendon said, make sure you have virtualization enabled in the BIOS. Flash the latest BIOS release on to the mobo if it's not already.