The idea of a Home Lab is something that I have been after for a long time, after years of trying to get VMware cluster running of VMware Workstation (and yes I know it can be done but it is very messy), I now have a Server at home (an ML350 G4 Quad Core with 8GB of ram and 1TB or Raid Storage) thanks to a very generous Customer.
So I now have a 3 Node nested ESXi cluster running on ESXi as a base OS, the VC is set to auto start and then the ESX Nodes can be brought up as required, for shared storage I use a QNAP NAS that supports both iSCSI and NFS with 1TB of Mirrored disk. to get nested ESXi to work correctly there only needed to be one or two hacks and that is a change to the advanced setting on the VM's to add the following option and a network setting change, these can be found on the site below.
http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/
Regards Spence..
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