A laptop is a great idea if the solution needs to be portable. Not sure that was what the OP was looking for. Also the scalability of a laptop for something like this is very limited unless you significantly increase the budget. For a home based solution at a fixed price, I think rolling your own is still the best option.
YMMV Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 [email protected] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From: Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 04/03/2012 02:14 PM Subject: Re: recommendations on home server to that end, there are some decent i5 and i7 based notebook computers that can be used for VM hosting, relatively quietly, relatively low heat, etc. For work I have an HP with 8GB RAM and a Core i7 cpu, and often run variations of VMware, Virtual PC, and Virtual Box for QA and customer demo purposes. works just fine. Would I want to use it as a 24x7 host for an enterprise, of course not. That said, there should be some refurb and off lease for a decent price On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: Wow. I guess we will have to take our toys and go home now. I mean, I don't live in a mansion myself and the garage is not an option for placing a "real man's man' server" due to temperation considerations in the summer and my children being in the next room and all make the noise a serious and very 'real' problem for enjoying the small house that I (and the bank) own without a noise isolated room. It's a home lab, not replica work environment for crying out loud. Most electircal circuts won't be 20-30 amps either which when one gets to 'real mans server' is a consideration. If one can spin up a virtualization platform and load up ones guest systems on it, we will gain benefit from our 'little toys'. :D Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote: Electricity for a single low use server is pennies a day, the more drives you spin the higher the bill no matter what case you put it in and no it isn’t workstation quiet but I wouldn’t expect it to be. As he’d be doing remote management for the most part the server can go anywhere there is an ethernet connection. If you want to “play around” with virtualization build a workstation, if you want to learn and test in something close to a real world environment buy a used server. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: recommendations on home server It isn't quiet or low powered, though... On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:42 PM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote: OR you can just buy a used Dell Poweredge 2950 for $400-$600 with a raid controller, multiple drives and CPU’s and gobs of memory and be done with it. I can assure you it’s on the VMWare HCL and most likely Microsoft’s and Citrix’s as well. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-2950-2x-Intel-R-Xeon-R-CPU-5120-1-86-Dual-Core-6-x-300GB-/160776821444?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item256f0b9ac4 John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: recommendations on home server Wow, 8 cores for a home/lab server? That's a little extravagant, isn't it? 4 cores is fine for a handful of VMs, and quad AMD Phenom's can be had for < $100 when on sale. Don't really need the graphics that's bundled into the FX CPUs, and AM3 motherboards are cheaper as well. Carl From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: recommendations on home server Strictly for home lab use: MB http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1963472&CatId=7248 $84 Memory http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1874822&CatId=4534 HD http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7331904&CatId=4357 $99 CPU http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1239958&CatId=7341 $189 Case http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7328068&CatId=1509 $69 Using these components you could get the following: 32G RAM 3TB in RAID 5 array across 4 spindles Total cost $954. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 [email protected] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From: "Jimmy Tran" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected] > Date: 04/02/2012 06:26 PM Subject: recommendations on home server I’m in need of a decent home server to run ESX-I to run SBS, W7 and some other test VM’s. My budget is preferably around $500-$1k. Looking for lots of processing power but low powered (if possible), RAID on the drives, decent amount of ram. Don’t know where to start….can someone recommend something? 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