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Having just got rid of an HP DL360 G6 due to the massive power consumption and noise, I'm looking for a replacement so just wondered what servers people had and what they were running on them.

I've currently got an HP N40L running W2k8R2 and Hyper V with a half dozen virtual servers (but it's starting to struggle now).

Not really interested in peoples work servers just really home servers.

So.. post em if you've got em..
 
Dell Poweredge R710. 2x qc xeon 24gb ram, 5x 450gb 15k sas drives. Used as a development and test server for MCITP i'm learning, also runs my media streamer, and it's not too bad on eleccy compared to my ancient desktop machine.
 
Mines a self built machine with an ivy bridge i5, 32gb of ram, 8tb of storage and server 2012 with hyperv role. Designed to be quiet but powerful. The loudest components are the hdds. Pulls about 35w total when idling / low load.
 
Dell PowerEdge T300 - Xeon 3323 Quad-Core 2.5GHz - 24Gb - 4x500Gb. Runs in the loft, well insulated against noise coming down. Can barely hear it until your head is well into the loft either :)

Server runs ESXi with at the moment about 9VM's running doing various things, as well as a testing domain for a few things.
 
My home server isn't quite as extravagant as most people's here, but I don't pay the electricity bill so it'd be harsh to run anything too beastly. It's a Core i5-3570T with 16GB RAM on an Asrock Z77E-ITX. It's nice having a quad core with a TDP of 45w; I've not seen the CPU go above 60C even at full load. I use it as a Hyper-V host for my MS cert studies, as well as a general file server for Linux ISOs and other such media. It usually has 6 or 7 VMs running, though I do sometimes spin up a few Windows 7 clients. I run anything that requires any serious amount of power on my main system or my laptop.
 
I have a few test servers but my main one is a DL360 G6, 16GB RAM, Puny E5420 and 5 X 500GB SAS disks. RAID 1+0 and ESXi.

Run various redhat, server 2003, 2008 and recently 2012, mainly just for testing and study for projects at work which I end up doing at home....! have a few snapshots of works DC's that I mount to test as closely to work setup as possible, broken the domain at home a few times so worth the setup!!

I also have a DL160 G5 along with a few cisco 1841 and 867 routers and some 2950 switches.

....good job I don't pay the electric bill!
 
HP Microserver NL36 8GB RAM, 1 x 250GB HDD, 1 x 1TB HDD

for the time being

Running VMWare ESXi 5.1 with two VM's at the moment (Server 2008 R2, Ubuntu Server)
 
AMD x3 405E (45W)
WHS2011
TV card, Sat card
2 x 3TB, 3 x 1TB (no green drives)

Media storage, backup, vpn, Mediaportal host. Planning to add a couple VM's for testing but they usually sit on the HP N40L with EXSI

48W idle drives spun down, a little over 100W at full load and all drives spinning.

Just picked up an Athlon X4 640 cheap and from what I read the idle consumption is comparable the the energy efficient E series but will give me 75% extra performance when needed.

Just use a standard boxed HSF and cool and quiet. Fan never really ramps up, quieter in operation than the N40L though I'm temped to dismantle that and swap the rear fan.

AD
 
I have one n40l which sits in the rafters of the garage, this is esxi with 3 vms, Freenas, 2012 and Ubuntu. Use it for torrents, media server, backups, zfs, all sorts. Cracking bit of kit.

Also have an old poweredge 2950 sitting in the rafters alongside the n40l which I use for lab work, just recently I used it to host nested esxi, vcentre, iscsi etc. This is off most of the time and I use drac to control it.

I also have a Freenas server at my parents which backs their stuff up, this replicates my backups to their server and vice versa which gives us both an off site backup :)
 
Not mine but I specced it as a replacement and the company bought it so I feel a little attached to it :D

Dell R620 with Dual E5-2667 48Gb 1600 ram, 4x 1TB nearline SAS 6gb/s drives in raid something or other.

My home server is home built:

i3-3220 with 4gb ram, 3x 3tb WD red in raid 5. I have a lower budget than work does but more need for space :D
 
Si. said:
What components are you using?
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Mines as follows:
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 (for the VT-x, VT-d, and vPro features)
4 x 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz corsair vengeance RAM
MSI Z77MA-G45 Intel Z77
Seasonic G series 360w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
Tower CPU cooler with very low rpm fan

Works a treat for me
 
Gammawolf said:
Mines as follows:
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 (for the VT-x, VT-d, and vPro features)
4 x 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz corsair vengeance RAM
MSI Z77MA-G45 Intel Z77
Seasonic G series 360w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
Tower CPU cooler with very low rpm fan

Works a treat for me
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How much did this cost? I'm planning on something similar instead of buying a microserver.

Thanks. :)
 
For those components it cost me about £420, (Combo of OCUK and sourced elsewhere + I got the RAM cheaper earlier last year). HDDs I already had from my desktop so i moved the mass storage into the server and have subsequently bought an Intel Ethernet adapter as i couldn't get the onboard realtek one to work in ESXi (Even though i've read someone else got it working out the box :( ). Some of the components are probably OTT, no need for a tower cooler depending on placement and the PSU was a bit dear considering..
 
Did you ever consider the microserver?

I can't decide whether or not it's worthwhile going down this route or not.

I don't like not being able to customise things, plus the processor isn't that great in the MS.
 
i5 CPU
32GB RAM
128GB Crucial M4 SSD(OS - Windows 8)
64GB Crucial M4 SSD (High IO vms).
50GB OCZ RevoDrive SSD (Build drive)
256GB Crucial V4 SSD (Medium IO vms)
2TB Samsung F4 Sata SSD (Backups / off line VMs).


I use vmware workstation to build all my test machines; its the most efficent way I've found to quickly knock up a bunch of machines with the way it automates the installation, I also love it has built in options for limiting / simulating network conditions such as packet loss / ping.

I've used ESXi and HyperV but on a single server they're too limiting and slow.

I've not got the benefit of it also doubling as my main rig that also plays BF3, if I want to game I just pause any running VMs.
 
I had a look at the microserver, and its fantastic but i needed a bit more grunt from my system. I didn't really consider it as a real competitor to the home build purely because i'm looking at running fairly intensive VMs on there, file servers, minecraft server, webserver as well as use it as testbed for nested esxi instances etc.
 
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