Subj : Re: Anyone seen/connected to...
To   : Accession
From : esc
Date : Wed Dec 06 2023 03:02:40

 Ac> My VMWare setup, I reckon. But the discussion did have a couple people
 Ac> involved that used and/or preferred Proxmox. The choice between the two
 Ac> is completely up to you, though. Take a look at some screenshots of both
 Ac> and see which one catches your eye. Otherwise, they basically do the
 Ac> exact same thing. I've ran VMWare 6.5.0 (Update 1) since it was released
 Ac> (it was the latest version at the time I set this all up, like 2017 I
 Ac> think). Never had any issues, never had to upgrade, never had to
 Ac> reinstall or change anything. Proxmox is more than likely just as solid,
 Ac> and probably much easier to download. I just re-visited the VMWare
 Ac> download page, and looks like you have to create and account and login
 Ac> in order to even download the latest ISO (8.0 Update 2).

Thanks! I'll be honest - I'm wary of anything VMWare after the Broadcom purchase. Plus proxmox is on debian and I know my way around debian super well, so I'll likely go with that option. But I think you're right that it's probably six in one half dozen in the other.

 Ac> I bought a (New) HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 Tower server from Ebay back
 Ac> then for somewhere in the $300-$400 ballpark (Don't bother looking on
 Ac> Amazon, they're upwards of 1k+). Xeon E3-1230 @ 3.30ghz, 32gb ram, 4 x
 Ac> 2TB HDDs that I've setup in a RAID1 configuration. If one drive fails I
 Ac> can swap to the mirror drive and replace the bad one, and don't remember
 Ac> the rest of the specs. It has definitely served it's purpose for 5+
 Ac> years and most likely was a bit overkill, but eh well. For quite a while
 Ac> I ran 3 VMs 24x7, one of them being a plex media server, which streamed
 Ac> to our TVs all around the house over wifi at 1080p without issue, while
 Ac> the two other VMs were running.

Ok cool. That gives me an idea what I can expect. Honestly, I shouldn't need to spec this box super well, it's just going to run BBS related stuff. I think I have an Intel NUC which may even serve the purpose here. But on eBay, that same rig is <$200 so at least I know what I'd need to get myself into!

My concern would really be fan noise and power consumption at that point. It's going to be in my office which is where I'll take calls and VTCs so quietness/silence is pretty important.

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