Introducing the ghetto virtual datacenter where all scripts and VDI development takes place

--- in an apartment under a college student's bed.





Specifications:
1 bedroom dresser
Cisco Catalyst 2950
Smart-UPS 1000 (for those occasional brownouts)
Old school Supermicro 2U rack mount chassis (SC822 something?)
Supermicro X8DTL-iF motherboard (82574L gigE NICs and ICH10 SATA controller on HCL)
Dual Xeon L5518 (2.13GHz, 8M Cache) (FT support)
48GB DDR3 ECC Registered Memory
Adaptec 5805 RAID Card (on HCL)
1 x Western Digital 2TB RE4-GP (ESX boot and backup datastore)
4 x Seagate Savvio 10K.2 SAS 146GB (in RAID 5)
4 x Seagate Constellation SAS 500GB (in RAID 5)
All chillen at ~300W power consumption (there's also other stuff in the background hooked up to the UPS)

go eBay!
and yeah...my everyday virtual desktop (that was spun up 3-4 years ago on a DL360 G2 w/ ESX 3.0 because my physical desktop crapped out during finals week) runs in that thing... oh RGS, where would I be without you?