ESXi Server




think there is a world market for maybe five computers. . 
 - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.. 
 - Popular Mechanics, 1949

I purchased the parts for this box in June of 2019.  I have swapped out a few pieces over time and updated the Hard drives but here is the status as of April 2023

Software

  •     ESXI 7.0.0
Hardware


Motherboard
GIGABYTE Z390 UD













CPU
Intel Core i3-8100 Coffee Lake 3.6 GHz LGA 1151
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/126688/intel-core-i38100-processor-6m-cache-3-60-ghz/specifications.html?wapkw=intel%20core%20i3-8100

According to CPU Benchmark it has an Avg CPU Mark of 6168  


Memory 

64 GiB total

4x DDR4-3200  16GiB   G. Skill

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RW6Z692/






Hard Drives
10.0 TiB Total

18.0 TiB  Western Digital  WD181KFGX
18.0 TiB  Western Digital  WD181KFGX
18.0 TiB  Western Digital  WD181KFGX
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3.0 TiB  Western Digital  WD30EFRX
4.0 TiB  Western Digital  WD40EZRX










 
PSU 

Seasonic Prime 600 Titanium SSR-600TL fanless PSU