Microserver and esxi - is this possible?

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I'm looking at setting up my microserver to act as a backup server and a small home lab for 70-680

It's the n40l with 8gb ram. It's got a 160gb, 250gb 2 x 1tb and a 120gb ssd drive.

I'm looking for the best way to set all this up with esxi

I'm thinking about putting esxi on a USB drive on the internal USB port.

I'd then use the ssd to host the vm's.
I'd want one vm to act as a backup server for the macs in my house so looking for it to be able to access the 1tb drive. Not sure wether to use something like Freenas or a windows server for this?

The other vm's would be one server (2008r2) and 2 w7 clients. I'd use these to run through the labs in 70-680

The other thing is, I have no experience in esxi... Is all this even possible?

Or would you recommend something else?

Thanks in advance

 

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I'd guess that as this bundle is advertised:

HP RB-404, RB-414, SH-222BB/BEBE, KVR1333D3N9/4G, ESXI5-HYPERVISOR, 658553-421 ProLiant MicroServer N40L 'ESXi 5 Testbed' Bundle | ServersPlus

that it is certainly possible...

 

It certainly is, I've got one with 16GB of ram in it running ESXi5.1 without any issues what so ever.

 

I kind of meant is my configuration possible

 

What ram have you got in?
Anything in particular?

 

Ah beg pardon, didn't read through the OP properly. Yes its entirely possible to do all those things easily. I dont know what file shares mac supports whether its NFS only or not but I would be tempted to use freenas or openfiler as the backup appliance if you will. So when you create the VM for openfiler just have a small thin provisioned harddisk1 (8GB should be plenty) on the SSD's then create an additional disk on the 1TB drive and then just manage freenas/openfiler as you would normally from their respective webUI's to tell it what to do with the storage.