HTS's Lab in Progress
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Well, SAM posted his, so this is the thread to building up my lab environment. I just ordered two HP Proliant DL360 G5 Server Quad Core E5410 2x2.33GHz 8GB 2x73GB 10K P400i 2PS. I'm gonna ramp up the ram and drives in each and start playing. Currently i use mainly cisco for my firewalls, I'm not brand loyal for switching. Time to start playing with Hypervisor ideas, maybe some sort of NAS just for experience. I stole those servers they were only 135 a piece! anywho, should be delivered thursday, i'm excited. that is all for now
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@Hubtech ESXi. You can get 5.5 for free on VMware's website. Great for dev/lab environments.
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Sounds like you have a good start there. You going to be looking at a cloud environment?
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I really intend on just playing around with some virtualization at a little larger scale. most of my clients have server 2008r2 or 2012 with 2 VMs running, i want to play around with wan backups of vms which i can mock up in my office. just going to do some self teaching so i can market to larger clients.
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@Hubtech said:
I really intend on just playing around with some virtualization at a little larger scale. most of my clients have server 2008r2 or 2012 with 2 VMs running, i want to play around with wan backups of vms which i can mock up in my office. just going to do some self teaching so i can market to larger clients.
Gonna focus on HyperV, Veeam and Unitrends?
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no focus yet.
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One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.
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@hubtech Get a UEB no matter what you do!
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@scottalanmiller said:
One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.
well, at the cost of these servers, i could fill up a rack in no time lol
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Servers should be delivered tomorrow. ya'll get excited
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Awesome
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i should be home this weekend to play with em
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@hubtech Congrats! Bet you're excited!
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Cool! Should be a fun weekend for you, then.
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@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.
well, at the cost of these servers, i could fill up a rack in no time lol
Filling up a rack is easy, it is keeping the power on that really gets you.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.
well, at the cost of these servers, i could fill up a rack in no time lol
Filling up a rack is easy, it is keeping the power on that really gets you.
And the sound.
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well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip
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@Hubtech said:
well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip
My old home office in Texas had a big floor standing A/C unit to cool the rack. The piping was all painted up in NTG Orange.
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hts is green and gray. Do your clients know you Usé your closets for data centers?
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@Hubtech said:
hts is green and gray. Do your clients know you Usé your closets for data centers?
We aren't a host, but our prod stuff is 151 Front St. Our backup is Mississauga. Our cloud facilities are Chicago, Dallas and Nova. The racks at the "residential datacenter" are the sixth tier down of equipment.
