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I have DIY a system in 2010. But have never use it as a bare metal ESXi server. Was very used to Windows and end up having Windows 7 with workstation 7. However, there are limitation. You do not learn as much due to the fact that commands in Tech Support Mode is your friend in VMware World. Windows 7 is not resource unintensive, so part of my memory is used to run the OS. Workstation 7 has a USB service which indirectly affecting some of my USB device e.g. Mobile Broadband Dongle from Huawei. I decided to rebuild my system with a baremetal ESXi installed. Bare in mind my is a DIY PC which I seek quite a bit of reference from ESX / ESXi 4.0 Whitebox HCL. My whitebox specification ASUS P5Q-E motherboard Core2Quad 9550 Kingston DDR2 800MHz 16GB Max (4 x 4GB) 2 x WD 500GB 1 x Seagate 160GB (my old HDD) XFXForce video card (was using this to play some games) Intel GT 1Gigabit card LG IDE DVDRW Rom Thermaltake casing Silverstone 550W PSU 2GB thumbdrive The disappoi...