Just wondered if i could pick some brains on here. I have a trusty old Dell T20 server which has served me well over the years but is well and truely past its sell by date now. We are just finishing on the house renovations now and I have a home lab with all my networking equipment in a rack and its probably time I move on to a new server. The current server runs two VMs on ESXI and I would like to keep ESXI if i can as i know how it works, so Ive been looking at Dell servers again as the VMware is still available as a free image for dell machines.
I have £1500 to spend (2k at a push) and would like to include storage drives in that cost if i can. My current storage is 2tb drive mirrored and a 12tb media drive so not massively demanding. Ive been looking at Dell T140 and T150s in this price range including used units on ebay. I was going for these over rack mount units as i believe they are quieter being small office servers.
Do you have any recomendations on what I should be looking for within my budget?
I have £1500 to spend (2k at a push) and would like to include storage drives in that cost if i can. My current storage is 2tb drive mirrored and a 12tb media drive so not massively demanding. Ive been looking at Dell T140 and T150s in this price range including used units on ebay. I was going for these over rack mount units as i believe they are quieter being small office servers.
Do you have any recomendations on what I should be looking for within my budget?