Whats on your Home Server

korgtronix said:
If you can get 2 that would be perfect for the amount of VMs you would need. I splurged a little on my host but I struggle to fill the SSD on it with lab machines tbh.

120gb should be ok if you have other drives to store less high access things like isos etc. It will be able to store quite a few VMs if you use differencing disks. I have a 2012r2 base vhdx which takes ~10gb in core mode which I then attach differencing disks to when I need to test stuff. This way you can spin around 6-7 VMs inside 120gb easy.
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I have 2 120gb SSDs I can split, so there we go...

Also with the Server 2012 host OS could I actually have that as my DC/something else and run the rest in Hyper-V? Or I am being thick?!
 
So, more updates :-)

1 x Dell R310 with X3470, 16GB RAM, iDRAC 6 Enterprise & 2 TBS 6981 DVB-s2 satellite cards.
1 x Dell R410 with 2 x L5630, 26GB RAM, iDRAC 6 Enterprise.
1 x Supermicro X8DTL-iF (generic 4u rack case) with 2 x L5630, 26GB Ram.
1 x BCM BC77Q with i5 2400 running Xpenology (hacked synology DSM 5.2) with 12 hotswap 3.5" bays.

Basically have replaced my generic domain controller i5 based machine with a Dell R310 1u server with top end Xeon on the 1156 socket. While not as efficient as the i5, it is more suited to my needs and carries my tv cards fine. Is currently using 65w of power while decoding Sky NZ TV in HD so happy with that...

Also custom build my xpenology build on the i5 with enough expansion slots to add in another SAS controller and also 10GBe network card when I get around to that.
 
Currently running Windows 2011, I was on EXSI which was awesome apart from the small fact that it would not let me just hook up my physical disks without wiping them first!!! (still anyway around this?!!)

I would much prefer to be on VM, sounds like 2012 R2 might be the way to go?
 
I currently just have an HP N36L Microserver with Xpenology and 4 x 3TB drives. This hosts all my files, Plex server, SickBeard, and SAB.

I'm considering either moving all of that to a proper Synology NAS and repurposing the N36L as an ESXi box for a lab or maybe just going out and buying a Gen8 Microserver for the lab.
 
AMD FX4100 "white box" 16GB Ram (5TB Raw storage)

Debian Jessie
Webmin
ZFS
NFS + SMB + ISCSI
Couch potato, Sickrage, Deluge

Kimsufi Dedicated

Intel Atom, 4GB Ram
Virtualmin)

Hosts dummy webpage, email, owncloud server, OpenVPN
 
Server - Dell T420, Dual Xeon E5-2420 v2, 32GB of RAM, 3x500GB SSDs in RAID 5 for the VMs and host, one 500GB SATA drive for local ISO images. This hosts whatever I'm learning at home, currently 2012 R2 Hyper V in preparation for MCSA. It also has a 1GB memory card for running ESXI or RHEL etc.
Synology 415+ NAS - hosts media & backups. Also runs sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato and Crashplan.
Workstation - 5k iMac, i7, 24GB RAM.
 
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Server -
undervolted AMD Phenom II X4 955
4GB DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte 790FX-UD5P motherboard
nVidia Quadro FX3500 GPU
128GB Samsung OEM SSD
LSI MegaRaid 8888ELP 8i/8e SAS HBA
Intel RES2SV240 24 port SAS expander
7x 2TB WD Se disks in RAID 5
2x Icy box IB-553SSK 3 bay hotswap SATA/SAS backplanes
Prolimatech Megahalems cooler
550W Superflower Golden Green PSU
Coolermaster CM690-II case

Runs OpenSuse 13.1 Gnome, hosting Teamspeak server, Plex media server, SMB, NFS, VNC and SSH/SFTP. Primarily used to store duplicate copies of frequently accessed files as part of a backup system. It also gets used to convert media via handbrake instead of tying up my main machine.
 
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My current setup

Main server:-

Intel Core i5 2400s 45w (Quad Core)
Intel DH67BL Motherboard
Intel Pro 1000CT Gigabit PCI-E x 2
600w Corsair PSU
Corsair H70 Watercooler
60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SE SSD
10 x 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDDs (RAID6) (wdidle done!)
3 x Icy Box IB-554SSK 4 Bay Hot Swap SATA Enclosures with alarm.
LSI Megaraid 9260-16i 16 Port SATA/SAS RAID Controller
16GB DDR3 RAM
Lian Li PC-P50B Case

Runs Server 2012 R2, with another 2012R2 VM which runs SABnzb and sickbeard, and an Ubuntu Desktop VM which just runs MySQL for Kodi

have around 11TB of Blu Ray rips, then lossless music, videos of my family and pictures etc. Plus the usual TV shows

FreeNAS server (used to backup all my data to)

Dell Precision T3500
Intel Xeon L5630
32GB DDR3 ECC RAM
5 x 6TB Western Digital Red RAID-Z1
Intel Pro 1000 PT Quad Port NIC

For my HTPCs i use an Intel NUC and a Gigabyte Brix running Kodi and sharing a MySQL DB
 
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Just built a server to host my files,

Pentium G anniversary cpu
gigabyte z87n wifi
4gb ddr3
4tb wd red

Currently all I am running is windows 10, MySQL to handle kodi database, utorrent automated with filebot amc and set up with rss feed downloads. Using teamviewer to control it all. I don't have to touch it and it all just works so for now I have no plans to add any other software.
I would like to add another 2x 4tb reds to the main server but I'm planning on building a low spec atom unit with Seagate drives, I'm hoping to have it connected on the second lan port of my z87n and wake on lan once or twice a week, back up the main server if that is possible. to be honest it may take a while, the thought of the cost of 24tb of storage is a little eye watering!
 
My setup is as follows, kind of simple really.

HP N54L Microserver
AMD Turion N54L 2.2Ghz CPU
8GB RAM
120GB SSD
2x 3TB WD Reds in RAID1
1x 2TB WD Green
Windows 2008R2

Currently used as DC, Backup, File Server, TeamSpeak 3 server, Plex Media Server, Clonezilla Samba Backup, DHCP, DNS & DynDNS Updater. Occasionally used as FTP Server and to Wake up my main PC remotely.
 
Server 2012 R2
I7-5960X
Asus X99 E-WS Mobo
64Gb DDR4
x8 4TB mechanical seagates on a adaptec 6805 in RAID 6 (21.8TB available)
x9 2TB mechanical seagates on a storage pool (16.5TB available)
x4 Crucial 256GB on a adaptec 6805 in RAID 10 (476GB available) for VM's
x4 Intel 520's on a storage pool (451Gb available) for messing about with

Host runs
Exchange 2013
System Center 2012 R2
CCTV (Xprotect)
Serviio
Domain Controller
App server
3CX phone sytem
Couple of test VM's
Direct Access
 
ThePirateHulk said:
I currently just have an HP N36L Microserver with Xpenology and 4 x 3TB drives. This hosts all my files, Plex server, SickBeard, and SAB.

I'm considering either moving all of that to a proper Synology NAS and repurposing the N36L as an ESXi box for a lab or maybe just going out and buying a Gen8 Microserver for the lab.
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I've completed my upgrade now. I tried using the N36L as an ESXi host but wasn't happy with the performance so I just put XPEnology back onto it.

Now I'm running ESXi on a dedicated 4th Gen i3 machine I cobbled together.

On this I am running a Windows Server 2012 DC. A Server 2008 server running Sickbeard & SABNzbd+ which dump everything onto the NAS and a VCenter server to manage VM's.

My next plan is to replace the mobo to one that supports at least 32GB of RAM to give me more headroom for lab work.
 
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