Thought I'd search the forums for 'lab' to find a new lab machine. Glad I came across this thread!
That eBay deal seems like a steal. I just quoted a RAM upgrade for a server that was twice as much as these. Just purchased 2 of them. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Yep, works like a charm.requires older IE (I had to tell IE10 to play like IE8) and Java, but I consoled into it and it woks fine. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 10:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware Good heavens. Do these things have a BMC on them? DRAC, I mean? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:20 AM To: [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-4x1 60GB-HDD-48GB-DDR3-Warranty-/251263380756?pt=COMP_EN_Servers <http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-C1100-1U-2X-XEON-QC-L5520-2-26GHZ-4x 160GB-HDD-48GB-DDR3-Warranty-/251263380756?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item3a807 6ed14> &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]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 3:20 AM To: [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]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Saturday, 17 August 2013 5:00 AM To: [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]] 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]> 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]] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:57 AM To: [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]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:19 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
