New Server

[Tomm]

Hey,

Got my refurbished server from ebay today (I know understand why it costs £20 to ship it ). Few pictures:

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Got VMWare ESX Server 3i installed on it with two VMs setup currently (Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Openfiler - a varient of CentOS designed for storage). Plan to install Smoothwall in another VM when I get a ethernet ADSL2+ modem/gateway.

If your intrested here are a few screenshots of setting up the VMs in ESX 3i:

http://www.tehupload.com/album/519

Thanks,

Tom

[Stephen!]

Very nice. Are you using it for a homeserver?

[Tomm]

Yep, decided to upgrade my current home server which is just a old PC to this one. Only problem is that it is rather loud

Very nice. Are you using it for a homeserver?

[N!ck]

What are the specs ans how much?

[Jahova]

What are the specs ans how much?

I would also like to know this

[lolwut]

You... used... Windows 7... on... a... server...

Really, shouldn't you wait until 7 is stable?
I mean cause if 7 goes down your VM's will too.

Just seems like you have a bit of a deathwish to me, but if that's how you want to do it... D:

[iUnknown]

Why get such small parts/thin server if it's not going in a data-centre?

+1 on interest of specs and price.

[Tomm]

Where did I say I was using Windows 7 on the server? VMWare ESX 3i (http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/) ,which is a bare metal hypervisor, is the software running on it (Its not really a operating system as it just provides a layer between the VMs and the physical server which adds obvious performance advantages over running a Virtualisation program in a OS).

If you are judging by the screenshots then thats just the software you run on a client PC to manage the server.

Specs:

2x Intel Xeon 3Ghz Processors
2GB DDR2 RAM (Plan to upgrade - supports upto 12GB)
1x WD 500GB SATA Hard drive (Not included - this was mine)
Dell PERC SCSI/SATA RAID controller
2x Onboard Gigabit ethernet connections

Price: £175 ex. P&P

You... used... Windows 7... on... a... server...

Really, shouldn't you wait until 7 is stable?
I mean cause if 7 goes down your VM's will too.

Just seems like you have a bit of a deathwish to me, but if that's how you want to do it... D:

[Tomm]

Yeah, yeah. How about this.
-snip-

What the hell is all that crap?

[Tomm]

Um, can we control all this frankly pointless rubbish everyone seems to be posting.


Edited by Yoshimitsui (Forum Super Moderator): This is not a multiple post as various posts have been removed from the thread.