Monthly Archives: May 2011

Building a low power Sandy Bridge ESXi + ZFS Storage Array

I have finals this week, so I will update this post as I have more time. In the meantime, I am working to get vmware ESXi (free version of vmware Virtualization server hypervisor) onto a custom whitebox build to replace my aging Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 server that uses around 125 Watts while idle. Continue reading