• Post Your Servers v2: "Not my equipment, but..."
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How difficult would it be to migrate from hyper v to esxi? It's a bit of a waste for me to be running server 2012 since I don't have very much ram and don't use the features of and don't really use any Windows server features right now.
File server [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14575796/PCScreenshot/server/speccyAMD.PNG[/IMG] Print server Secondary FTP server General Linux machine that I mess with [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14575796/PCScreenshot/server/archeyPII.PNG[/IMG] Reason why they are separate is that they need to be in two separate locations. I need the print server in the living room for family use, but I need the file server in my room, because the machines are on a Gb switch in my room which connects to the internet over Wireless G which is godawful for file transfers.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;40070696]How difficult would it be to migrate from hyper v to esxi? It's a bit of a waste for me to be running server 2012 since I don't have very much ram and don't use the features of and don't really use any Windows server features right now.[/QUOTE] It's a walk in the park, VMWare provide a V2V tool for doing this.
[QUOTE=XL5;40071781]It's a walk in the park, VMWare provide a V2V tool for doing this.[/QUOTE] Awesome, I'll have to give it a try the next time I upgrade my server. I need more hard drives...
I have a trickier question.. Is converting Xenserver to ESXi worth it? Tried the supplied vCenter Converter but it needs a destination server to push the VMs to - and I only have one server.. I need a way to export my Xenserver VM to a file, then wipe the server, install ESXi, then import the VM again. Is it possible?
[QUOTE=Akito8;40118640]I have a trickier question.. Is converting Xenserver to ESXi worth it? Tried the supplied vCenter Converter but it needs a destination server to push the VMs to - and I only have one server.. I need a way to export my Xenserver VM to a file, then wipe the server, install ESXi, then import the VM again. Is it possible?[/QUOTE] Yeah, just export the VM to an OVF/OVA package from inside XenCenter, you can import them into ESXi. In most cases however, you will get better performance by reinstalling the VM's rather than .
Christmas came early this year. Server admin at work gave me six 72GB 15k drives for free, and is selling me a ProLiant DL380 G5 with eight 72GB 10k drives for $50. He also has dozens more drives just sitting in a box that I might be able to comb through. lawd give me strength
Dunno how much these count, they're mine, but I don't have physical access to them: [t]http://static.glitchvid.com/images/fp_posts/hws/serversandsuch.png[/t] first 4 have the exact same hardware specs, the one on the right is older.
[QUOTE=MTMod;40121997]Christmas came early this year. Server admin at work gave me...[/QUOTE] I need to find one of these mythical server admins that have spare Cisco devices to give out.
[QUOTE=MTMod;40121997]Christmas came early this year.[/QUOTE] Super jelly. Been planing out a DL360 G5 rig for awhile.. Does anyone wish to answer some questions relating to "those things that hold only hard drives"? I looked around on newegg and noticed most of them were e-sata but in a server based environment wouldn't e-sata be too slow to steam 1080p videos to +3 clients? Of course their is multi thousand dollar ones, but generally looking at the max 400$ range equipment.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;40133131]Super jelly. Been planing out a DL360 G5 rig for awhile.. Does anyone wish to answer some questions relating to "those things that hold only hard drives"? I looked around on newegg and noticed most of them were e-sata but in a server based environment wouldn't e-sata be too slow to steam 1080p videos to +3 clients? Of course their is multi thousand dollar ones, but generally looking at the max 400$ range equipment.[/QUOTE] eSata too slow? no probably not.. What were the "multi-thousand dollar" ones using? SAS?
[QUOTE=DPKiller;40133131]Super jelly. Been planing out a DL360 G5 rig for awhile.. Does anyone wish to answer some questions relating to "those things that hold only hard drives"? I looked around on newegg and noticed most of them were e-sata but in a server based environment wouldn't e-sata be too slow to steam 1080p videos to +3 clients? Of course their is multi thousand dollar ones, but generally looking at the max 400$ range equipment.[/QUOTE] At that point I'd think the hard-drives would start becoming the bottleneck. But an enclosure that used SAS would still be better, easier to manage the cables too. On that note, if you're really dependent upon serving lots of files at once, using a PCI-E SSD would probably be your best bet.
I should have posted the racks at the school I work at before I ripped it all out (we are moving to a new building) they were an absolute mess!
[QUOTE=DPKiller;40133131]Super jelly. Been planing out a DL360 G5 rig for awhile.. Does anyone wish to answer some questions relating to "those things that hold only hard drives"? I looked around on newegg and noticed most of them were e-sata but in a server based environment wouldn't e-sata be too slow to steam 1080p videos to +3 clients? Of course their is multi thousand dollar ones, but generally looking at the max 400$ range equipment.[/QUOTE] What are your requirements? 3 clients watching 1080p and that's it? Most people underestimate home machines. In enterprise environments, you use overkill hardware because you have hundreds or thousands of users.
[QUOTE=gparent;40136720]What are your requirements? 3 clients watching 1080p and that's it? Most people underestimate home machines. In enterprise environments, you use overkill hardware because you have hundreds or thousands of users.[/QUOTE] (In its house environment) Generally looking for 3 clients streaming 1080p and some occasional file downloading / daily computer backups. (In its LAN Party environment) Up to 10+ people streaming 1080p along with game servers. Streaming is not entierly important in this area but would be nice that it would be extremely great in the hosting area. The 1080p content alone is 4tb. Kinda been eyeballing the DL360 G5 its pretty much cheaper to buy one than make your own, and all this equipment would fit nice in a 9U portable server rack.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;40136885](In its house environment) Generally looking for 3 clients streaming 1080p and some occasional file downloading / daily computer backups. (In its LAN Party environment) Up to 10+ people streaming 1080p along with game servers. Streaming is not entierly important in this area but would be nice that it would be extremely great in the hosting area. The 1080p content alone is 4tb. Kinda been eyeballing the DL360 G5 its pretty much cheaper to buy one than make your own, and all this equipment would fit nice in a 9U portable server rack.[/QUOTE] May I ask why you'd ever need 10+ people streaming 1080p video from your server at a lan party? What kind of content needs to be streamed...?
[QUOTE=Akito8;40145813]May I ask why you'd ever need 10+ people streaming 1080p video from your server at a lan party? What kind of content needs to be streamed...?[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/pirate.gif[/IMG]
Loot pics: [t]http://i.imgur.com/7gt6YRS.jpg[/t] Just swapped the drives, I've got them in RAID 5 now. It's still only ~330GB... I guess that should be enough for my most important backups.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;40148444][IMG]http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/pirate.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] lel honestly, the hard drives won't be your issue I'd be more worried about the LAN speeds, if you're transferring over the network 1080p requires upwards of 20mbps to stream smoothly (at least, that's what I find) [QUOTE=MTMod;40152555]Loot pics: [t]http://i.imgur.com/7gt6YRS.jpg[/t] Just swapped the drives, I've got them in RAID 5 now. It's still only ~330GB... I guess that should be enough for my most important backups.[/QUOTE] the only thing keeping me from buying tons of used servers to fuck around with at home is the power usage.. my coworker's home server (2U poweredge, not sure the exact model) costs him $50/mo in power alone, granted, he does keep it running 24/7
[QUOTE=DPKiller;40136885](In its house environment) Generally looking for 3 clients streaming 1080p and some occasional file downloading / daily computer backups. (In its LAN Party environment) Up to 10+ people streaming 1080p along with game servers. Streaming is not entierly important in this area but would be nice that it would be extremely great in the hosting area. The 1080p content alone is 4tb. Kinda been eyeballing the DL360 G5 its pretty much cheaper to buy one than make your own, and all this equipment would fit nice in a 9U portable server rack.[/QUOTE] Also keep in mind that a 25mbps video is actually 3,125MB/s => 10*25mbps = 31.25MB/s A normal 7200RPM drive runs at 100-130MB/s So, in a LAN you would occupy 31.25MB/s. If you have a gigabit setup you used 1/32th of what it is capable of running. And 1/3,2 or 1/4,16 of the harddrives I mentioned. 1 byte = 8 bits
[QUOTE=Akito8;40153148] the only thing keeping me from buying tons of used servers to fuck around with at home is the power usage.. my coworker's home server (2U poweredge, not sure the exact model) costs him $50/mo in power alone, granted, he does keep it running 24/7[/QUOTE] This is why iLO is your best friend.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40154275]Also keep in mind that a 25mbps video is actually 3,125MB/s => 10*25mbps = 31.25MB/s A normal 7200RPM drive runs at 100-130MB/s So, in a LAN you would occupy 31.25MB/s. If you have a gigabit setup you used 1/32th of what it is capable of running. And 1/3,2 or 1/4,16 of the harddrives I mentioned. 1 byte = 8 bits[/QUOTE] And really, if you have servers running at home for streaming and backups, and dont already have a gigabit network, you're doing it wrong... Though a 100mb lan network should be able to handle rhe streaming to a few people. 10 would be pushing it though.
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;40155935]And really, if you have servers running at home for streaming and backups, and dont already have a gigabit network, you're doing it wrong... Though a 100mb lan network should be able to handle rhe streaming to a few people. 10 would be pushing it though.[/QUOTE] I really like transferring files to my server... 110 - 120MB/s /drool
If anyone is interested, i just pulled a used intel p4 out of a server. Has a single core and HT and is clocked to 3.0ghz. If anyone would like it, pm me and ill send it to ya free. Shipping depends how you want it sent.
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;40156211]If anyone is interested, i just pulled a used intel p4 out of a server. Has a single core and HT and is clocked to 3.0ghz. If anyone would like it, pm me and ill send it to ya free. Shipping depends how you want it sent.[/QUOTE] Are flying unicorns a shipping option?
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40156283]Are flying unicorns a shipping option?[/QUOTE] Only if you provide one.
is it true that your network is only as fast as your slowest component?
[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;40156678]is it true that your network is only as fast as your slowest component?[/QUOTE] Nope
[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;40156678]is it true that your network is only as fast as your slowest component?[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. Alternate routes can prevent slow traffic in a network.
[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;40156678]is it true that your network is only as fast as your slowest component?[/QUOTE] A connection is only as fast as the slowest device in the chain. However, if you have a 1 Gb switch, and a PC with a 1 Gb NIC, and another with a 10 Mb NIC, the 1 Gb NIC won't slow down to 10 Mb. Wireless is a little different, since everyone has to communicate the same since everyone connects to the same access point. However, as far as I know, I believe routers can support multiple network standards at the same time (like Wireless G and N at the same time).
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