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Steveocee said:
Damn you!
I need money for HDD's as well
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I share your pain.
I'm running 3 1TB's and a 250GB.

4 x 2/3 TB's in RAID is soo much more fun, and plenty more $$$$$:(

But then again the Micorserver was always going to be stop gap until I can get the funds for a Xeon based server, like Ml350/380. :D
 
Steveocee said:
I've already gone from it being a Linux test lab it replacing my cobbled together q6600 home server.
1st world problems eh?
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For me it's actually a 1st world problem in a 3rd world country... where everything is god damn expensive an there's none of this cash back malarkey :(

How many VM's could be run with just 8GB?
 
Totally depends on the guest OS and what it's doing.
I have a linux VM hosting a hardly used HTTP forum in Apache, PHP and MySQL. It also hosts a Mumble (murmur) server for 5 people running on 512MB RAM. Works fine.
A Windows 2008 R2 server is recommended with 4GB of RAM so quite a difference. Typically though the slowest component tends to be the HDD. If you have multiple VM's all trying to read/write to the same HDD it will be slow. I've had though 8+ VM's running from the same HDD fine but none are doing heavy disc I/O at the same time.
In fact I write this from a virtual Windows 7 guest OS. I use this daily to get onto sites that are typically blocked at work. That and I can hide just how much web browsing I doing instead of work. At the same time my server is hosting a 2003 Domain Controller, 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Gateway, this Windows 7 client and the above Arch Linux that also hosts a Plex media server.
 
Swarfega said:
Totally depends on the guest OS and what it's doing.
I have a linux VM hosting a hardly used HTTP forum in Apache, PHP and MySQL. It also hosts a Mumble (murmur) server for 5 people running on 512MB RAM. Works fine.
A Windows 2008 R2 server is recommended with 4GB of RAM so quite a difference. Typically though the slowest component tends to be the HDD. If you have multiple VM's all trying to read/write to the same HDD it will be slow. I've had though 8+ VM's running from the same HDD fine but none are doing heavy disc I/O at the same time.
In fact I write this from a virtual Windows 7 guest OS. I use this daily to get onto sites that are typically blocked at work. That and I can hide just how much web browsing I doing instead of work. At the same time my server is hosting a 2003 Domain Controller, 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Gateway, this Windows 7 client and the above Arch Linux that also hosts a Plex media server.
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Just put my mind to rest :-)

I'm wanting a ubuntu-server to host a raid'd 3 drive 1TB pool and mumble server
A Win7 desktop for remote access
A win XP desktop installed but not powered up.
Maybe a centos server for testing.
 
Steveocee said:
Just put my mind to rest :-)

I'm wanting a ubuntu-server to host a raid'd 3 drive 1TB pool and mumble server
A Win7 desktop for remote access
A win XP desktop installed but not powered up.
Maybe a centos server for testing.
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Using ESXi, no problem. Using a host OS...should be OK but it won't be as fast as using ESXi.
 
Anyone using whs2011 know what could be wrong with my setup, basically my 2 Samsung TV's can see the server but none of the video files I have stored on it, they were both working fine until recently and afaik ive not made any setting changes
 
Bradmax57 said:
Anyone using whs2011 know what could be wrong with my setup, basically my 2 Samsung TV's can see the server but none of the video files I have stored on it, they were both working fine until recently and afaik ive not made any setting changes
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I had this. I think its the codec used for the file you want to see. I had loads of video files on the server and my sammy tv couldn't see one of them but could the rest so I figured it was down to codec in some way
 
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