new server

darkangelism · 03-16-2008, 12:25 AM

I bought a server for my house, and im such a nerd im all excited,lol, most people dont get excited by servers. i wont get it for a few weeks so the waiting sucks

IR_Efrem · 03-16-2008, 01:11 AM

I Just turned an old computer into a server - it houses my website and a game server

havent bothered with email though - no need to, I wouldnt mind having an actual server box though heh

Duke · 03-16-2008, 01:22 AM

You guys must have more than a 60GB/month bandwidth cap like I do

darkangelism · 03-16-2008, 02:29 AM

i have no cap on my internet, but i dont use that much bandwidth. Mine is probably not going to be a web server, i am debating between running ESX and server 08 for stacking some virtual machines on there and then running a virtual network couple of domain controllers maybe an exchange server and sql. its a quad core xeon box with 8GB ram so as long as my hard drives dont bottleneck too much i should be able to run a a decent number of VMs, pretty much i wanted it to practice stuff on.

IR_Efrem · 03-16-2008, 10:15 PM

cap - what cap? :P

SAS raid 5 ftw! hehe

darkangelism · 03-16-2008, 11:57 PM

i have a sas controller but right now its gonna have sata drives on it, and id run a raid 10 cause thats faster then a raid 5

IR_Efrem · 03-17-2008, 12:50 AM

give some take some =)

personally if i were to set up a raid i would go with raid5 - less disks to buy and overall more storage for my money

but for absolute performance without loss of redundancy raid10 does the trick quite well

darkangelism · 03-17-2008, 02:43 AM

yeah, but im not running a live environment so i dont need that much space, ill eventually move to 15k drives or SSD and if the server needs storage ill probably buy or build a small iscsi san unit, 10gb ethernet should give good disk performance

IR_Efrem · 03-17-2008, 01:51 PM

I think that I would run linux as the host for virtual machines. I use Archlinux with a permanent XP guest right now, plus I install other guests whenever I feel like tinkering.

darkangelism · 03-17-2008, 03:10 PM

i will probably use vmware ESX cause its a hypervisor, so its hardware level virtualization support, but i have to get a product key from work cause its not cheap, which is why i will probably use server 08 with hyper-v first cause i get that through msdn, and its also a hypervisor but server 08 is a much heftier host

IR_Efrem · 03-17-2008, 05:15 PM

I'd still run it on a linux host ... esx works with linux as well

i wont argue about server 08 being heftier because that has not been proved to me in any manner

IR_Efrem · 03-17-2008, 05:21 PM

the word is still out on hyper-v imo

guess we shall see how it performs

darkangelism · 03-17-2008, 07:09 PM

esx is a host OS a nice tiny 30mb one. well i should have good data on performance between esx and hyper-v soon enough.

IR_Efrem · 03-17-2008, 07:13 PM

well when you get some data on the setup, ease of use, and performance let me know your take on it

always interested in newer software n such =P

darkangelism · 03-17-2008, 11:41 PM

yeah i will, it should be fun to do.