Probably depends on your use case. The Microserver makes a great virtualisation host (there's people who've managed to squash 7 drives into the N40L/N54L models) - I think you need disks (and NICs) more than you need CPU in a home lab scenario. Probably different in a small office situation.
My microserver's sit in my study, so my concern is heat/noise output. Replaced a Dell PowerEdge similar to that ThinkServer with 2 x Microservers, and I prefer the later. The older microserver's have a RAC that gives you a remote desktop, which is good-enough KVM for me. There's a big Microserver community at OCAU, which is also handy from a "will this work?" PoV Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Humphries Sent: Sunday, 23 June 2013 12:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Ultimate home lab? I think I'd rather get this over the HP microserver for SOHO. Twice the RAM, xeon processor and full KVM unlike standard iLo from HP. http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Lenovo-ThinkServer-TS130-1105-Xeon-E3-1225V2-3.2-GHz-Monitor-none/2848078.aspx Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 6:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Ultimate home lab? I was comparing it to the Precisions mentioned in the post before mine. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Saturday, 22 June 2013 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Ultimate home lab? On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > HP Microservers IMHO. New Gen8 is out: > > http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-detail.html > ?oid=5379860 Might well be a fine product, but not really trying to be what that Dell box is trying to be. Two different things for two different scenarios. -- Ben
