Glad to help! My 840 had two 1TB drives with my VM's on it, so I simply RAID1'd two of the 160GB drives on the C1100, swapped in my 1TB drives, loaded Server 2012 (and no datacenter edition needed to see over 32GB RAM, YAY!!) and presto!
Dave From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik Goldoff Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 7:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Even with relatively small (160GB), old hard drives a good deal [ I really doubt at this price that those are not original/previous owner drives with years of spin already on them] I might have to pick up one or two , thanks for the link David -EG From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:25 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Wow. $400? That's impressive... -sc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:20 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware I missed these recommendations (I was on PTO last week) so I ended up paying $400 for one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-C1100-1U-2X-XEON-QC-L5520-2-26GHZ-4x160GB-HDD-48GB-DDR3-Warranty-/251263380756?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item3a8076ed14 On powering up it turns out I have one of this guys' 72GB RAM offerings, but it loaded Server 2012 Standard just fine and I was able to move my Hyper-V guests over no sweat. It doesn't come with a CD-ROM drive and reading forums it's not really recommended for an SMB solution but for my lab uses it's perfect. Troubleshooting my PowerEdge 840 (long story on why I didn't do this before ordering the C1100), turns out the BIOS dropped the settings of two of the four SATA drives ("unknown") and changed the boot order from 0-1-2-3 to 2-1-0-3. Resetting the drive info to what I'd expected brought the server back to normal operating condition. I will simply turn it into an iSCSI target... Dave From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 3:20 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware For the workload you've mentioned, I'd just get a HP Microserver. Cheap, quiet, cool. Get 2 x SSDs for whatever needs fast disk, and 2 x WD Blacks or Reds for anything that needs bulk storage. The latest gen (G8) has iLO, 2 x GB Nics, 4 drive bays, 16GB RAM supported. Cheers Ken From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Saturday, 17 August 2013 5:00 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware I don't need 32GB, but I plan to run Exchange 2013 which would be my main RAM-eater, the rest don't really need much RAM. I could probably get away with 16GB if I had to, the Exchange would exist for testing migration from on-prem to Office365 more than anything. Dave From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 11:52 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Why do you need 32GB to manage that? I have a host managing more VMs (5 currently) with 16GB RAM, and I was doing some streaming on it for a while. An i3 would be okay, but an i5 would be excellent. (I'm running two different Hyper-V boxen with quad-core E3-1235 processors.) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:33 PM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hmm...maybe I'm thinking too narrow of a box (see what I did there?). Looks like all i-series CPU's support Hyper-V too. Thinking further....I have a PC that we mainly use to stream HULU/Netflix....would it be feasible to use a Hyper-V server and one VM be the entertainment system/HDMI output with other VM's running in the background? It looks like if I can use SLAT (Intel's I processors do). Anyone doing this? Hyper-V server with 1 Media workstation VM leveraging good video card for streaming 1080 video outputting to TV via HDMI 1 VM that is a server OS 1 VM that is generic workstation client Dave From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:57 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware I'd think whiteboxing would not be viable since a Xeon proc and 32GB of RAM will just about consume your $500 right off the bat. Why does it have to be a Xeon? A quad core i5 whitebox might be doable for $500. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:19 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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<tel:503.548.5229> // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764<tel:503.267.9764>
