Two weeks ago I published an article about the ultimate white box, well I wasn’t the only one searching for some cheap hardware to host ESX 3.5. Dave Mishchenko, a VMware community champion from Vancouver, discovered a way to extract a list of supported hardware from the VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-sata RPMS file. He created a complete list with all kinds of ESX 3.5 compatible motherboards and SATA controllers. You can find the list in this discussion.