So I Got a New Test Box
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So @PSX_Defector and I did a deal. I had watched his house for him while he was out-of-state in July and so he was gonna pay me some $$ (in addition to wiping out a little $$ I owed him). Well, he happened to have a Dell Poweredge 2850 that he'd picked up years ago. It's got 2xDual-core Xeon CPUs, 2GB DDR2-ECC RAM. It's got 4 slots free. He's got some drives he's gonna give me that are laying around his house, when he finds them. Right now I have two 147gB 10k RPM SCSI drives. My plan is to run JBOD for now. Why? This server is going to be for dev/test. If a server fails, who cares?
The plan is to get more RAM on Newegg (DDR2 PC5300 ECC) and get it up to maybe 12GB (6x2GB). The RAM is about $100. I just need to get one of those IKEA tables that are raved about so much and I'll be good.
I'm planning to start learning SQL, Exchange and Server 2012 some more. Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
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What hypervisor are you going to be loading up?
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Is that even a question? ESXi 5.5 is going on this bad boy!
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It's for home use, use vSphere 6 at least.
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In beta. Full release should be next week.
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@ajstringham said:
I had watched his house for him while he was out-of-state
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OK in lite of this post, I looked up the PowerEdge AJ is taking about,
This server seems almost to cheap.
I could really use test system, and this seems perfect cost wise - will it have enough horsepower to do the things AJ wanted (ESXi, Exchange/Server2012/SQL/Linux webserver)
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@Dashrender said:
OK in lite of this post, I looked up the PowerEdge AJ is taking about,
This server seems almost to cheap.
I could really use test system, and this seems perfect cost wise - will it have enough horsepower to do the things AJ wanted (ESXi, Exchange/Server2012/SQL/Linux webserver)
ESXi isn't anything. It isn't going to run a webserver. It's going to be a straight dev/play/test box. Nothing prod will ever be on it. I'm gonna bump up the RAM to 12GB. It'll suffice for a box to play with for learning purposes.
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I added the web server for my own needs.
I know ESXi isn't adding any real load
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That is pretty cheap.. jeez,.. My brother and I have been trying to deal with how to backup our data as well as our dad's for the last year or so. And we have thought about setting up replication between the three houses. We all get off site and even out of state backups - This could be a good option. Though a power hungry one.
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@g.jacobse said:
That is pretty cheap.. jeez,.. My brother and I have been trying to deal with how to backup our data as well as our dad's for the last year or so. And we have thought about setting up replication between the three houses. We all get off site and even out of state backups - This could be a good option. Though a power hungry one.
Look into CrashPlan. You can game that system so you only need 1 paid subscription.
They let you back up between yourselves for free. Or you can pay $60 per year for unlimited up to their cloud. So setup replication via CrashPlan between the three of you, and then one person pay for a subscript and boom everything goes to the cloud.
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Got it up and running yet @ajstringham ?
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Not yet. I don't have the $$ for the RAM yet. It's gonna sit idle for a couple months, sadly.
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Throw CentOS 7 on there in the interim and use Docker
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I have 2 Dell PowerEdge 2850's for sale!
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@technobabble said:
I have 2 Dell PowerEdge 2850's for sale!
Chat message sent - at least as well as it can be.
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replied in chat @Dashrender
