First, is the E5-2600v2 series the best choice at the moment? I read that Xeon hasweel will not be out until Q2 2014. All or most motherboards from at least supermicro was released in 2012, I would feel better if thr MB was released at the same time as E5-2600v2 (was in June?)
Super micro have several Motherboards but it is hard to know with one it the best for me:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
or maybe 2 CPU? (bust be able to start with one cpu and 64GB ram)
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c60...
Storage:
I will build a nexenta VM using vmdirectpath with n numbers of 3-4TB sata drives + 240GB fast SSD. Sins nexenta community edition is limited to 18TB this will be my max in the future.
Graphics (fanless):
I will want to install one or two cheep but decent graphics card for virtual desktops. The few graphicscards i saw was added to ESX 5.5 cost about $1000, any cheep ones that work?
As for case, PSU, memory I will go for silence then cheep.