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Home lab for vmware\AD etc

CorkFenian · 2015-02-10 17:56:45

Have used and bought labs online before..I am VCP 5.1 certified. But looking for something for home, Microserver 8 only has 16GB RAM, looking at NUC and Shuttle anyway good 32GB RAM (smallish) servers out there? Cheers, CF

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10-02-2015 6:56pm

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CorkFenian

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Have used and bought labs online before..I am VCP 5.1 certified. But looking for something for home, Microserver 8 only has 16GB RAM, looking at NUC and Shuttle anyway good 32GB RAM (smallish) servers out there?

Cheers,

CF

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#2 16-02-2015 11:07am
BigEejit

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What are you planning on doing with the box?

You would be surprised how little memory and cpu each esxi server instance with some VM's would use. I had 6 VM's running on esxi 5.5 in 8GB memory on a low power 4 core processor (since upgraded to 16GB to improve performance). My little machine now has 5 ssd's and 5 hard disks in it :P

One thing I would suggest you get is a cheap UPS, if your box is busy and there is a brownout/power cut your server may be severely tiggered.

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