<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yeah I had a great time over in Australia - very hot!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would probably install CentOS and use KVM for the virtualisation, or whatever is needed to give me an advantage on the RHEL exam(s). Yes, then I’d place CentOS and BSD VMs on there. Maybe two of each?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m thinking of either the BSDA or BSDP: <a href="http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification" class="">http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jan 2015, at 09:31, Les Pritchard <<a href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com" class="">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Yes it was good thanks, you?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For a few VMs like that you'd be fine. In fact I do have a G7 running ESXi and I think 3 / 4 VMs and one of them is a Windows Server - so it can't be that bad! For single user playing then I think it would be more than adequate. Are you thinking of putting a hypervisor on the box then RedHat or BSD VMs? Which of the BSD certs are you looking at?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Les</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 January 2015 at 09:22, Michael Crilly <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:michael@mcrilly.me" target="_blank" class="">michael@mcrilly.me</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Les!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good holiday season?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think I’d want something that can house at least 2/3 VMs, but they’re mostly idle. They’re not doing anything computationally heavy, just sitting there waiting to be broken :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ll see if I can get a good deal on some G8s, RAM and disks.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- M</div></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jan 2015, at 09:19, Les Pritchard <<a href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Mike,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've used a lot of the older model (G7), mainly for use as NAS and they've been very good. They seem well built considering the price range. As for the G8, I haven't used them (got plenty of the G7 in stock!) but I have heard good things about them. It has a much better CPU, which is where the G7 came up short. Not sure how much heavy lifting you could do with it (you wouldn't want it as a hypervisor for lots of VMs), but for the certs with a single OS on there then I'd think it should do the job.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Les</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 January 2015 at 16:43, Michael Crilly <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:michael@mcrilly.me" target="_blank" class="">michael@mcrilly.me</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Ladies and Gentlemen,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I was wondering if I could lean on the collective knowledge of those who own or have used (HP) micro servers for labs and other things. I'm looking to buy one, perhaps two; what model have you bought recently, and how good is it? I'm looking at this model:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/517760-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-microserver-712317-421" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ebuyer.com/517760-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-microserver-712317-421</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I would upgrade the RAM to 16GB and throw four 2TB HDDs in there too. It doesn't come with an optical drive, so I would fill this space with an SSD, but I'm reading I'll need a molex splitter for this. Any thoughts or tips on this?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The idea is this will become a lab for RHCE and BSD certificate studies. I see the CPU is upgradable too, so perhaps that means I can add more life to the system later on down the line.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thoughts?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">- Mike <br class=""></div></div>
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