The physical server:
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- Dell PowerEdge T110
- 8GB of Memory (4x2GB), 1333MHz, Dual Ranked UDIMM
- 250GB of Hard Disk
- Intel® Xeon® X3430 Processor, 2.4 GHz, 8M Cache, Turbo
- Total Cost: $692.84
Once the server arrived, plugging in the cables and installing ESXi was very simple. I used our flat-screen TV as a temporary monitor and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo from Best Buy.
The earlier version of Virtual Box installed with no problems and I now have a vmware client in my virtual windows machine. I did try to install the vmware client directly on the mac using wine, but that failed when the install started looking for Windows service packs.
Next steps: create some virtual Windows servers on the ESXi box.