Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?
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@Dashrender said in Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?:
Damn that has to be loud!
They are not powered on much for that reason.
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@Dashrender said in Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?:
This will teach you how you can help a company migrate away from a Windows domain setup to a Linux AD setup, save some costs, etc.
If your goal is to learn how to do that, it's cool. OTOH if you're trying to learn how to support clients that have nothing but windows and no desire to go to Linux for AD, you might as well learn the platform your customers are using.
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@Mike-Davis said in Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?:
@Dashrender said in Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?:
This will teach you how you can help a company migrate away from a Windows domain setup to a Linux AD setup, save some costs, etc.
If your goal is to learn how to do that, it's cool. OTOH if you're trying to learn how to support clients that have nothing but windows and no desire to go to Linux for AD, you might as well learn the platform your customers are using.
True enough.
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A lot of it depends on where you live (how much you pay for utilities). My DL380 averages around 175W of power consumption. I have ~ 14-15 VMs running (average, depends on what I'm working on/testing). So it costs me about $115 a year for electricity. Or about the cost of 2 small DO or Vultr servers per month.
My 380 is really quiet. It's a G6, which is rated at 22/28 dbA. It's quieter than my one desktop that I'm using as a NAS.
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If it is VMware you want to learn, check out the free Hands on Labs (hol.vmware.com). I was told by someone at a VMUG (VMware User Group) that you can put infrastructure you have created in a lab environment on a resume and that if you can do it in the lab environment you can do it in production. There are also some VMware product walk throughs out there that I think are helpful - https://featurewalkthrough.vmware.com/.
Look for a local VMware User Group to you. Go and talk to the people in that group, and ask them how they got to where they are today. There are also Veeam User Groups around the country too. Again, this is a great place to get product specific knowledge and advice from those who use the technology daily.
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If you had another station (whether laptop or desktop) or maybe a very small VM on what will be your host, consider installing Starwind's virtual SAN (just on the one box). It's a way to get yourself some experience with how VMware or another hypervisor interacts with iSCSI storage. I've used it in a lab before, and it worked great.
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@NetworkNerd said in Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?:
If you had another station (whether laptop or desktop) or maybe a very small VM on what will be your host, consider installing Starwind's virtual SAN (just on the one box). It's a way to get yourself some experience with how VMware or another hypervisor interacts with iSCSI storage. I've used it in a lab before, and it worked great.
We have that on top of the Scale cluster in the lab. Starwind SAN on top of the HC3 works great.
