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Stephen Rees-Carter | 21 Jun 2012 22:03
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Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
good place to get one? :)

Thanks,
~Stephen

On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross <david.sh@...> wrote:
> HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs
Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity to spare.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> On 21/06/2012, at 9:03 PM, Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen@...> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine
>> which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04
>> Virtualbox headless or ESXi.
>> But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two
>> Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a bit out of
>> the loop for what's good/bad on the market in terms of desktops and
>> home servers.
>>
>> So I was hoping that you guys could help me out...
>>
>> Since it's going to be a VM host, I'm after something with decent
>> specs, lots of RAM, and multiple large disks.
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Dave Hall | 22 Jun 2012 00:54
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Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

Try staticice.com.au

On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
> Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
> good place to get one? :)
>
> Thanks,
> ~Stephen
>
> On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross<david.sh@...>  wrote:
>> HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs
Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity to spare.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 21/06/2012, at 9:03 PM, Stephen
Rees-Carter<stephen@...>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine
>>> which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04
>>> Virtualbox headless or ESXi.
>>> But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two
>>> Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a bit out of
>>> the loop for what's good/bad on the market in terms of desktops and
>>> home servers.
>>>
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Paul Gear | 22 Jun 2012 01:26
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Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote:
> Try staticice.com.au
>
> On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
>> Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
>> good place to get one? :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Stephen
>>
>> On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross<david.sh@...>  wrote:
>>> HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four
>>> 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity
>>> to spare.

+1 from me.  Great little boxes.  RAM might be a bit of a limitation,
but i've heard rumours that they actually work with larger modules than
they're certified for.

Paul
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On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote:
> Try staticice.com.au
>
> On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
>> Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
>> good place to get one? :)
>>
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Stephen Rees-Carter | 22 Jun 2012 02:43
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Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

Thanks guys, unless I can find something better at my local computer
store I'll get the HP.
I'd love to be able to get more than 8G RAM in it though...

Thanks,
~Stephen

On 22 June 2012 09:26, Paul Gear <paul@...> wrote:
> On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote:
>> Try staticice.com.au
>>
>> On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
>>> Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
>>> good place to get one? :)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> ~Stephen
>>>
>>> On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross<david.sh@...>  wrote:
>>>> HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four
>>>> 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity
>>>> to spare.
>
> +1 from me.  Great little boxes.  RAM might be a bit of a limitation,
> but i've heard rumours that they actually work with larger modules than
> they're certified for.
>
> Paul
>
> --
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