Virtualization Capabilities?

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bbouzos

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Hey all,
I’m trying to get into virtualization a little bit, so I started looking at a few servers and narrowed my search down to these two:

http://www.unixsurplus.com/product/supermicro-sc809-single-l5420-25ghz-8gb-x7dwt-inf-1u-dual-twin-server

http://www.unixsurplus.com/product/nas-vmware-raid-server-32-bay-35-sas-or-sata-jbod-storage-array-up-to-96tb

Are they both capable of virtualization? Is the hardware RAID card on the Rackable NAS compatible with VMWare 5.0, or would it be better to stick with the Supermicro and purchase a RAID card that is VMWare 5.0 compatible separately?

Finally, am I going about this the right way?

Thanks :D
 
You can look up all the compatibility stuff in the vmware compatibility guide.

For the "am I going about this the right way?" question I need more info. What are you planning to do with this? What kind of virtual machines? What are they going to be running. How many users etc.
 
Thanks for the response.

Long story short, I work for a small company that wants to run a Windows 2008 R2 server with 4 Windows 7 Professional workstations, but we currently use 2003, and I want to see if everything will work for us before I permanently implement it. That way, obviously, I don’t have to install it on every workstation one by one, and it makes it a whole lot easier to scrap if 2008 R2 doesn’t work out for us. Only thing is, I’m not the most savvy person when it comes to virtualization and how to go about it. Hence this post!

Thanks again for the help, I appreciate it.
 
So basically you want to install win2k8 r2 and a win7 workstations on the physical machine for testing purposes. If everything works out there will be only a win2k8 r2 machine running on it?

I don't know what kind of things your planning to use the server for but that should be about good.
 
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