That's awesome. I would like to try more of those, particularly open stack. Once I manage to get a second host, I can start playing with those advanced features like vMotion, high availability, fault tolerance, etc. I have eval experience so I have a pretty extensive set of licenses for non-production evaluation. Regarding the AWS topic earlier, I've heard good things about Ravello systems for cloud hosted home labs. If you don't leave your VMs running all the time, they are supposed to be really affordable for home lab use. I need to look more into the AWS free tier too. Anyone doing anything with that? On Aug 19, 2016 12:14 AM, "Mark J. Bailey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve actually got a healthy mix of KVM, ESXi and Citrix Xenserver ( > xenserver.org) going on. Xenserver != Xen (though they share the Xen > hypervisor). One thing I particularly like about Xenserver (especially with > version 7 now released) is that for free, it includes many of the > “enterprise” features that you have to pay for with ESXi (like hot > migration between xenserver hosts, etc). Having many dishes to choose from > makes it funner (for me at least)! J > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Vincent Brown > *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:22 PM > *To:* NLUG <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [nlug] Re: home labs on the cheap > > > > I'm enjoying it so far. Just getting started with it. It's my first ESXi > host. Taking the leap from Workstation. I found this blog post before I > bought it where someone else was using the same model. > > https://senk9.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/home-server- > upgrade-time-part-1-dell-precision-t5500/ > > > > ESXi installed without any issues. I'm doing some upgrades on my home > network. Getting vCenter server installed is next goal along with setting > up a domain for my homelab. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/nlug-talk/MKJhvjx6eJ4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
