Look at Dell Outlet Precision workstations in particular. That's how I've always solved this at home. If you get something now with 24 or 32 GB, spend a couple extra bucks such that it's upgradeable so next year you could invest some budget on more RAM.
Don't forget I/O - a single SATA spindle will get you 50 IOPS on a good day. I have 4x1T RAID10 in my main host and that does pretty well although occasionally it gets max'ed out. I've got room for four more spindles on the adapter so at some point I might make that investment. You'll be I/O constrained long before space constrained with these cheapo drives. I have 96GB in my main HyperV host at home - just doubled it from 48GB as I had it max'ed out and perf sucked. I've got all this running on there now and continuing to add as I need to: [cid:[email protected]] Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Looking for Hyper-V server hardware My old home lab PowerEdge 840 server is giving me issues so I'm looking to upgrade, looking to spend ~500 (can be used, obviously!). Ideally I'd like a tower server populated with 32GB RAM. I'm not picky on brand (partial to Dell because that's what my clients run, but not a requirement) but do want Xeon instead of the AMD equivalent. The closest I can find is a Dell T300 populated with 24GB RAM for about $500 shipped, which would work (the 840 has only 8GB RAM!). Since this is for my home lab I don't mind building a white box system either. Suggestions anyone? Dell Outlet prices are out of my price range... * Tower * Xeon proc * 24+GB installed * HDD's / optical drive not necessary, I have my own David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764
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