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Chris, I presume I can run the console on one of the computers on the network? Yeah. It has to be able to reach the hypervisor over the network. So either local, or the hv can be listening on an outside IP. You can run the management software on a machine running under the hypervisor, and RDP into it. But that's not really recommended.
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Sure it is.  You'll just have a hard time BUILDING it without a separate box for management.
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Or troubleshooting when something breaks.
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pshaw, what EVER breaks with ESXi?
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Hmm, blocked. It must be kitty porn. , huh? Well, you asked for it.
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Perfectly tame and non-double-entendre-able. Right?
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Peter, you're going to have messed up kids! 
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OK, I did some poking around and it looks like a Phenom II X6 will be just fine. It seems VMware is persnickety about mobos though. Mostly issues with NICs and SATA controllers.
I see that ESXi 4.1 supports hardware fault tolerance. At work we are paying $$$ for a Marathon solution to get both hardware fault tolerance and virtualization.
So, what would you guys consider a minimum requirement for RAM?
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8 gig should do well to start. Get the biggest sticks you can, so you have room to add more later (i.e. don't get 8x 1GB sticks and fill up the board). I'm guessing you're looking at a single CPU board? If you're going with dual CPUs, you will need an equal amount of RAM local to each.
I don't know if you get fault tolerance in the free ESXi package.
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