Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a really timely submission, cheers Mark & Paul!

Yesterday I ordered a quad-core server and 8GB of memory to go in it for a
shade over £300 to be the basis for VMWare ESXi, now begins the
process of
consolidating and vitalizing what I can!!


Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ukha_D@xxxxxxx Ukha_D@xxxxxxx" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:35 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience


> As energy prices concentrate all our minds on saving electricity,
those of
> use with multiple home servers are looking for ways to consolidate
into
> fewer machines running 24/7.  Now that VMWare ESXi is free, there's
never
> been a better time to virtualise your servers.  Is not all good news
> though,
> with access to certain hardware from virtual machines is still
troublesome
> or impossible.  Read on for one home automators experience moving his
home
> to the virtual world......  )Submission by Paul Smith)
>
> http://bit.ly/xgtsF
>
> M.
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