I will use this hardware for home lab, All I need is ESXi and maybe 2-4 VMs
Just one more thing. If you get this to work with ESXi, and you want to setup vCenter plus some VMs, then 8GB RAM will definitely be not enough. I'm running a small virtual vSphere lab at home, based on VMware Workstation on a PC with 32GB RAM, which IMO is the minimum RAM that you need.
André