I went ahead and made a diagram of the network I’d like to put together.


The firewall box has been ordered.  I’ll put that together and get it setup once it arrives.  I’d like to install the FreeSWITCH package as well and see whether I can get a decent soft phone working.  By that time I should have the parts to have an acceptable OpenFiler system setup and a single ESXi machine.  The dream is to be able to farm out jobs to a couple systems as needed and spin up instances of custom images locally.  Say for DVD encoding, DVD ripping, data mining, etc.