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[Les Pritchard]

Yes it was good thanks, you?

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?

Les

On 16 January 2015 at 09:22, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:

> 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> 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
>>
>> 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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