Subj : Re: Homelabbin'
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : vorlon
Date : Wed Dec 14 2022 10:41:20

Hi poindexter FORTRAN,

 > vo> The only reason for not trying it, is that I have no need at
 > vo> home! (Plus my main VM server is still on ESXi 6). I make sure all
 > vo> the VM's have backup's going back at least a week. SSD's for the
 > vo> VM's, hd's for the NAS/Backup's, Via VTX-D to the controller.
 > 
 > I use vSphere at work; I would have loved to run it at home, but the 
 > hardware requirements are strict. I had some server hardware supported
 > under 6.0 that wasn't that old, but wasn't supported by 6.5 - and
 > hardware that was supported by 6.5 not supported by 7.0.
 
A lot of people got pissed at vmware for doing that... I was one of them,
my old server had all the supported spec's except for the CPU, so a jump
onto ebay and a Intel S1200BTL with a E3 1240 Xeon cpu, was the new
server. Adding 32gb of ram was a nice feature though!

Some of us don't need the latest wizbang high end system for home use.

 > I've got my new lab server up and running, and migrated all of my VMs
 > to the new server last night. Got NUT working so my new server will
 > shut down when the UPS goes on battery, and this afternoon I'm
 > planning on swapping them out.

Our power is generally pretty good here, but every now and again some
doofus will do something stupid....

I got a notification monday morning that power had gone out, and the
UPS's (two) kept things running for the half hour until it came back. (I
wasn't home.)

 > New:
 > i5-6500 CPU (3.2ghz, 4 cores, 4 threads)
 > 32 GB RAM
 > 1 TB nvme SSD

You'll see the improvement just in core count! The SSD will make it fly
like there's no tomorrow.


\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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