Challenge: a second-hand homelab for Christmas (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by CloudyEngineer@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I have a single 64Gb RAM host (Supermicro Xeon E5-2630L v3) which is rather noisy.

What I'd like to do between now and Christmas is source three hosts (probably Mini-PCs) from eBay or Facebook or somewhere.

Constraints are:

The host/processor must be able to run ESXi 8.0U2
The max memory is at least 32GB
I'd like minimum 2x1GB NICs whose hardware are supported by VMware OOTB
Quiet

If anyone has any fruitful suggestions for hosts costing at most $350-$400 each then I'd be grateful.

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[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You won't really find miniPCs with 2 dedicated NICs unfortunately.

[-] Bytepond@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think it's possible with a few HP tiny/mini/micro pcs, but aside from that, nothing but a few Minisforum models and the high end NUCs which make no sense anyway.

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