[Chester LUG] Lab

[Michael Crilly]

Les!

Good holiday season?

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 :)

I’ll see if I can get a good deal on some G8s, RAM and disks.

- M

> On 16 Jan 2015, at 09:19, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Les
> 
> On 15 January 2015 at 16:43, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> 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:
> 
> http://www.ebuyer.com/517760-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-microserver-712317-421 <http://www.ebuyer.com/517760-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-microserver-712317-421>
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> - Mike 
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