Comments on: VMpros: My Homelab

By: sanderdaems

sanderdaems — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:29:08 +0000

Ariel Antigua :

How noisy is that DL585 ?

I’m planing to get one of those from a friend and add it to my current homelab, the only concerns are about the FAN noise..

Too noisy! There are 8 hot swappable fans but I'll recommend you don't buy this server for a homelab. Better you can take a look at the ML150 series or ML350/DL380 G6/G7 with power and fan controll.

By: Ariel Antigua

Ariel Antigua — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:39:55 +0000

How noisy is that DL585 ?

I’m planing to get one of those from a friend and add it to my current homelab, the only concerns are about the FAN noise..

By: sanderdaems

sanderdaems — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:30:21 +0000

@Virtualization Talk

THNX! I’m using only local (10/15K SCSI) storage, it’s too expensive to buy a good performing NAS/SAN for my testlab. Maybe in the future I’ll look for central storage..

For my ESXi homelab/pc (http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/02/11/vmware-tweaking-my-esxi-whitebox-memory-asus-p6t-se-ocz-gold-pc3/) I’m using the Samsung SpinPoint F1 2x 1 TB and OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD. But again… local storage

Nice blogepost you made!

By: Virtualization Talk

Virtualization Talk — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:34:38 +0000

Great piece of hardware you have for the lab. What are you using for central storage, if anything?

I am almost done building my home virtualization lab (http://www.virtualizationtalk.net/58-building-home-virtualization-lab-on-a-budget/) and thought about running vCenter in dedicated server but decided it would not be any different plus the added electricity usage and heat from the server would be too painful to deal with!

Thanks

By: Gabrie van Zanten

Gabrie van Zanten — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:56:42 +0000

Hi
Thank you for mentioning my blogpost about the whitebox home lab, this post might also be useful to your readers: http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=982

Greatings
Gabrie