[HECnet] Sort of off-topic, co-locating area 8

See my comments below. This is what I bought for my own VM servers: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&c… HP DL360 Gen 5. I have two I got on Ebay. Total cost about $1100 US. If my Pounds/Dollar conversion is about right, that's about the same as the DL380 you found. Two DL360's would fit in the same 2U rack space and give you some redundancy. Plus a lot more horsepower. Mine are configured as follows: 2 Intel Xeon Quad core E5345 2.33Ghz processors 16GB memory 6 73GB SAS drives in a RAID 10 (3 mirrors, striped over the mirror) which yields me about 200GB space. I run VMWare ESXi 5 on both. Why? Because it's free, it works reasonably well and I'm lazy. It would probably be more efficient to put a stripped Linux and VirtualBox but it's nice to be able to just create a VM with a few measly clicks. The downside is that I have to run the VMWare vSphere Client on a Windows platform. In this case it's Windows 7 running on my Mac Pro inside a VMWare Fusion VM. John H. Reinhardt On 1/22/2013 9:13 PM, sampsa at mac.com wrote: Actually, I think I'll go for something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Proliant-DL380-G5-2x-Quad-Core-Xeon-2-66Ghz-32… Could probably run a few FreeAXP / PersonalAlpha instances on that too. With the 32GB memory (expensive, compare the Ebay prices for 16GB) you'd have plenty to throw at VM's and with 8 cores, plenty of those, too. A tad expensive, but decent machines. The HP Proliants aren't bad for PC's sampsa On 23 Jan 2013, at 04:03, Cory Smelosky<b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 22 Jan 2013, at 21:00, sampsa at mac.com wrote: Guys, I've decided to move out of the UK but will keep all the machines in area 8 running by renting a 1/3rd rack from a colo provider. At the moment I have an iMac running a bunch of VM's and SIMH instances including GORVAX that I was thinking about replacing with a 2U server, and found this on eBay: For some reason i'm imagining you coloing an iMac G4 ;) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-SE1102-Twin-Quad-Core-2-5Ghz-12GB-RAM-1U-SATA-… Would that make a decent VMWare / SIMH host? Not a bad system. Might want a bit more memory, depending on how many VM you plan to run. It's got a lot of cores to spread around though. Seems okay, but: http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/386355-2 Cluster 'em and grab RAM for them. ;) Not as good. Older processor, single core. You'd need 6-8 of these to equal the # of cores as the HP. More rack space, electricity, cooling and costs more. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.