[Chester LUG] Lab

[Michael Crilly]

Yeah I had a great time over in Australia - very hot!

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?

I’m thinking of either the BSDA or BSDP: http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification <http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification>

> On 16 Jan 2015, at 09:31, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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