Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing with Virualisation that is annoying is you can't virtualise
the M=
ac OS. From my reading this is because the Mac OS licence forbids
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ion on non-Apple hardware. Oh well I might have given MacOS a try but not
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f I can't virtualise and am forced to buy their over-priced hardware.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@...>
wrote:
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> (resending as it didn't seem to make it to the list)
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> I got one of the HP ML115 G5 Opterons, I think they've been on various
> offers for the last 5 months or so.  Currently 199 at serversplus dot
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.
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> 8GB of RAM from Crucial is about 80.
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> The server comes with a 250GB hard drive but I've got some 10,000rpm
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ern
> Digital Raptors left over from another project to put in it and I've
> borrowed a couple of gigabit Intel network cards from work.
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> Hopefully it should make a reasonable ESXi platform - there's a good
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at
> techhead dot co dot uk with plenty of information.  I like the idea of
a
> "bare metal" VM server as you've then not got the underlying
OS to worry
> about.
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> I think that I may actually end up with more virtual servers than I
had
> physical servers because it's an ideal opportunity to consolidate
stuff a
> bit (currently thinking of having separate xAP and xPL virtual
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s
> at the moment stuff is spread out all over the place).
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> I'm aiming to go from 6 * 24/7 machines to 2 hopefully!  One will be
the
> ESXi machine running probably 4 VMs continually with another 3 or 4 on
> demand and the other will probably end up running anything that I
can't
> "virtualise" i.e. stuff that needs dedicated hardware.
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> Martyn
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> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Mark McCall" <lists@...>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience
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> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Martyn Wendon=20
> <martynwendon@...>wrote:
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> > That's a really timely submission, cheers Mark & Paul!
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> > Yesterday I ordered a quad-core server and 8GB of memory to go in
it fo=
r a
> > shade over =A3300 to be the basis for VMWare ESXi, now begins the
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ss of
> > consolidating and vitalizing what I can!!
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> Let us know how it goes Martyn.
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> Did you buy a ready built server?
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> M.
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