Server Guides?

[Chief]

Not sure what I'm really looking for. Maybe something like a home server? I'm not too really sure, but if any of you have guides saved or something and just want to post it, maybe I can be more specific in what the hell I'm looking for. Not game servers, more like a home server or similar

[Mission Difficult]

Not sure what I'm really looking for. Maybe something like a home server? I'm not too really sure, but if any of you have guides saved or something and just want to post it, maybe I can be more specific in what the hell I'm looking for. Not game servers, more like a home server or similar

A couple of us have Synology NAS products. A little spendy but really feature rich.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/

[Eightball]

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Not sure what I'm really looking for. Maybe something like a home server? I'm not too really sure, but if any of you have guides saved or something and just want to post it, maybe I can be more specific in what the hell I'm looking for. Not game servers, more like a home server or similar

A couple of us have Synology NAS products. A little spendy but really feature rich.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/
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*raises hand* yeah, I like mine but it was definitely pricey. But I spent extra to get one that was powerful enough to transcode video at 720p...

What are you planning to do with it?

[HeK]

Or you could go full retard...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/DELL-PowerEdge-19...3ced8e1356

[Chief]

Well i don't want to go all out in ordering servers or something. I'm talking like coming into possession of an old server (I think; could be old computer too) and then trying to figure out how to set up it to run it at home or something of the sort

I found this thing: http://owncloud.org/
Might be what I'm looking for?

[FlyingMongoose]

Ultimately we need specifics of usage to really provide input here. Do you want to run your own mail server? Store media and stream from it? Just a file server? Etc. As in grained detail as you can give

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[at0m]

I just picked up a TS140 Thinkserver and am running it on Windows Server 2012 R2, it's been pretty solid so far. I need to setup Hyper-V so I can use different VMs for Plex, uTorrent, and anything else I've got going on.

[FlyingMongoose]

I just picked up a TS140 Thinkserver and am running it on Windows Server 2012 R2, it's been pretty solid so far. I need to setup Hyper-V so I can use different VMs for Plex, uTorrent, and anything else I've got going on.

Those don't have too bad a price either... if it were in my budget I might actually think of picking one up just to play with for... well... anything really.

[HeK]

What a weird option... it's basically a desktop, but aimed at server use?

Anyways, hyper-v is a pos, give VMWare ESXi a try. It's available in a free license, but no gui so you will need to run the server headless and do all your admin from another workstation.

[at0m]

Desktop chassis, server hardware inside. Xeon, ECC RAM, etc.

I'm partly going to be using Hyper-V so that I can learn how to use it for work. I'm the de facto IT guy at my new company and inherited a bunch of crap set up by the engineering manager primarily and the previous IT/windows dev guy who wants nothing more to do with the company.

[FlyingMongoose]

I personally use Virtualbox because i'm lazy but if you're dealing in command line nothing wrong with no gui based virtualization.

[HeK]

The xeon is the only real 'server grade' part of that rig. It offers no redundant components. Single cpu, single psu. No battery backup on the raid. The memory is registered but not buffered. SATA drives, not SAS. That's all based on the price point though. Production grade systems start at nearly three times that price.

When I said no gui, I meant to say that esxi has no interface on the system it's self. It's entirely remotely administered with VirtualCentre. All you can do on the hypervisor is see the IP, and change it.
VirtualCentre is graphical and extremely powerful.

Now, ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor while virtualbox and hyperv both sit on top of a heavy host OS. This is why they compare type-1 hypervisors like vmware against type-2.
The base feature set within vmware is much greater. Out of the box you have better resource management, storage options, emulation support and features like functional memory de-duplication.

[Eightball]

The xeon is the only real 'server grade' part of that rig. It offers no redundant components. Single cpu, single psu. No battery backup on the raid. The memory is registered but not buffered. SATA drives, not SAS. That's all based on the price point though. Production grade systems start at nearly three times that price.

When I said no gui, I meant to say that esxi has no interface on the system it's self. It's entirely remotely administered with VirtualCentre. All you can do on the hypervisor is see the IP, and change it.
VirtualCentre is graphical and extremely powerful.

Now, ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor while virtualbox and hyperv both sit on top of a heavy host OS. This is why they compare type-1 hypervisors like vmware against type-2.
The base feature set within vmware is much greater. Out of the box you have better resource management, storage options, emulation support and features like functional memory de-duplication.

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