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Open source iSCSI with VMWare ESXi

I'm planning build my own iscsi with esxi system at home. My main purpose is
1. Stream audio/video.
2. Play SQL databse with iscsi.
3. Install thin client at different rooms and utilize the iscsi. Kitchen. Bar. Hometheater. Living Room.

Open source iscsi target I will use is IET. The operating system will be centos 5 64bit or ubuntu server 64bit. Do I really have to buy vSphere. That's too expensive for home use. :D I can live without vSphere I think.

Is there any performance issue with this solution: IET + ESXi. I googled a little bit and seems someone does, someone doesn't. Maybe due to different hardware and software configuration. So maybe you guys can give me some recommendation on hardware configuration. My initial plan for hardware is:
Quad core 2.2 GHz CPU
16G Memory
3+1  Raid 5 Total 6TB

Thanks for your input!

Lou
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1. Stream audio/video.
over iSCSI???
3. Install thin client at different rooms...
over iSCSI???

Doesn't make much sense, iSCSI is a block level protocol, you can't stream audio over it or use thin clients with it. If you want to use ESXi then just use local disks, no need to seperate the storage from your ESX host with iSCSI.