My wife bought me a new toy yesterday. A HP Proliant Microserver N40L. I upgraded the RAM (8GB) and after some fighting, installed ESXi from a USB drive. The fighting was because of installing from a USB drive, ESXi recognized all the hardware just fine.

I intend on running it headless, so I am using a tv as a monitor. My little sharp LCD only had dvi. My Samsung plasma has vga, but I can't turn off the power saving mode and it goes to sleep whenever it loses video signal. This means that during a reboot the screen powers down and takes ~5 seconds to come back on. It is really annoying when I was trying to figure out how to get into the BIOS.

I don't know what I am going to use it for other than getting more VMWare experience. I would like to run FreeNAS and Win7 (or Server 2008R2). If nothing else, I can use so of the dev boards I have lying around (phidgets, netburner, synapse-wireless).