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hellarda

hellarda

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hi,

at the moment i have an old dell dimension 5000 (upgraded CPU to support EM64T and also runs a lot cooler now) and 2 pc's and a laptop. i have over 200,000 songs and hundreds of movies. the router i am using at the moment is a netgear dg834g. i am hopefully getting an 'IBM E SERVER X SERIES 336 - 8837-45Y, DUAL XEON 3.6 CPU' which comes with 4gb ram and 2x 36.4gb ultra 320 15k SCSI drives. i am also going to purchase 2x 2TB HDD for main storage.

right, i am a 15 year old with limited money and knowledge in this area and really want to know more.

basically what i want to do is to have a centralised storage space for all music and DVD's in out house. i know it would be easier to just not use the IBM but i really would like to develop my knowledge in this field and (if its possible) to be able to set it up and understand it. what i would like to be able to is have the storage drives in the Dell, and then somehow link this storage to the IBM, which would either be running Windows Home Server Vail or Server 2008 (i do not know whether this would be possible on WHS) if i had to use server 2008, i really need to be able to access the files over the internet and media streaming would be nice (which i know WHS comes with out of the box) would this be possible? would i need to install WHS on one and server 2008 on another? would this work?

has anyone ever done anything similar? if its not possible then fine because i really have no idea, i am a complete beginner in servers.

i may also try and get some other servers as well and they're fairly old so nice and cheap, would other servers be able to be incorporated into this?

if it is possible a nice simple guide to follow would be great. if any other info is needed just ask :)

thanks in advance

ali
 
thanks for that,

i would have just installed server 2008 R2 (and i do have a copy of it already which my uncles kindly gave me :) ) but as far as i know the IBM has only SCSI controllers so the two SATA 2tb drives i have literally just ordered, wouldnt fit/work? (or support 4tb?) sorry if i didnt make this clear :)

the other thing is a lot of my mates use it at the moment for storing all their work on (dont worry all is backed up), and they use the nice user friendly web interface that comes with WHS would it be possible to set something up like this in 2008?

the hyper-v stuff sounds interesting, would this work on the ibm? im not sure how old it is. these are the specs:

Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz
Memory: 4 GB (installed) / 16 GB (max), DDR II SDRAM, ECC, 400 MHz
Storage Interface: Serial ATA-150, IDE
Form Factor: Rack mountable, 1 U
Graphics Controller: ATI Radeon 7000M, 16 MB
Networking: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

IBM xSeries 336 8837 3.8 GHz Serial ATA-150 Server Features
Features:
The latest 64-bit Intel Xeon Processors provide exceptional 32-bit performance and support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T).
Integrated system management processor and optional Remote Supervisor II SlimLine simplify administration with flexible levels of control.
New high availability features help improve system and application uptime.
Up to 16GB of PC2-3200 DDR2 RAM memory.
Up to 600GB Ultra320 SCSI or 500GB simple-swap SATA storage capacity.
Integrated RAID-1, -1E, and optional RAID-5 Raid support.
Dual integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet Network Interface.
1 PCI-X (64-bit 100 MHz) and 1 PCI-X (64-bit 133 MHz) or 1 PCI-Express x8 Expansion Slots.

also as i will be using the server as a download machine and media server, would i need to get a gigabit switch so i could copy files across from machines quickly?

thanks again

ali
 
i am hopefully buying it off ebay.... they go quite cheap.

its for 15 CALs i think not sure tho.

ive bin running vail for bout a month now, no problems so far.

EDIT: ive just been outbid on the IBM will be trying for either a dell powerdge 2650, an HP proliant dl360/dl380 or an Intel SR2300

still if anyone could help would be much appriciated :)
 
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thanks for the responses guys.

i am trying to learn about virtualisation etc but im also interested in the hardware side

and yes i would just stick xp on there if i wanted to make it easy.... but i dont i want to challenge myself and to get hands on experience in using server 2008 and apply to a real world situation (letting users being able to stream audio/video files from the server and to be able to access files from a remote location)

again thanks

ali
 
cheers thanks for that, ive bin fiddling around with SBS 2003, and setup a domain and joined my pc to it. and it decided to delete my local account, luckily i had a backup of everything because id just restored win 7. any ideas why that happened?
 
thanks i will try that, although the server i just won on the bay is quite old, 2 x single core xeons with 4gb ram so might not work :/ not even sure its 64-bit let alone support vt
 
the admin account was still active, and mine was still active, but i just had no documents or music or desktop shortcuts, it had all been deleted as the free harddrive space had also increased :/ weird
 
Right, server now has arrived :D, it is an Intel SR2300 chassis, with 2 single core (but with HT) xeons in it and 4gb ram, it appears they do not support 64-bit or VT which is a bit annoying but meh, also one of the hdd is dead which im a bit annoyed about as i now only have 68gb of formatted space :(

anyways, what i thort id do is install whs v1 and see wat the serves like. then use virtual box (if i can) to install sbs 2003 on it, and then install multiple virtual win 7 clients on my dell dimension which is currently running home server vail.

the main thing im wondering is does anyone know if there is any way to put SATA drives in my sr3200? or is it impossible? server board is an SE7501WV2

also can a 2u rack be run on its side?

cheers
 
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sorry another quick question, one of the PSU's has an amber light on it, and when i plug in just that PSU no lights come on at all D:

dead?

thanks
 
yeh thats what i thought, anyways theyre sending me two new HDD and another PSU :)

any thorts on anything else posted above?

cheers
 
yeh thats what i thort :/

can u get pci x sata cards? and then i could just mount the drive (physically) outside the case or somin.

im gonna install 2003 on it and use it as a backup server and then use the other one as a file server.

will try and get another server with lots of ram and run vms on it :)

cheers
 
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