Folding - Miscellaneous Systems

[Gorgon]

And to finish things off are two systems that don't actually fold or run BOINC but support those that do.

 

First up is Happy:

Shes  an Acer Revo R3610-E9032 NetTop rescued from FutureShop ten years ago for $50. She sports a dual-core Intel Atom 330 running at a blistering 1.6GHz with 2GB of DDR2-800 and 160GB of spinning rust. You might say "not too useful these days" but you'd be wrong. She has been in constant use since acquired starting her life off as my HTPC back in the Windows XP with Media Center days she only required an IR Blaster as she has HDMI and Optical audio and so integrated well with the Home Theatre we were using then.

 

Since her retirement from entertainment she has been running an REALLY old version of SuSE Linux and is acting as a LAMP Server dishing up 4 WordPress sites for various hobbies and is the principal stats collection server for LTT's Folding Team. Finally, a server room more Jankier than Linuses?

 

She will be moving to the realm of eWaste soon as I can't upgrade the OS and I really dont trust that 2.5" disk after all these years and hesitate every time she gets power-cycled though she is probably the system in the house with the most uptime.

 

Next is Happy's replacement. Simply called ESXi:

This Intel NUC 7i7BNH sports 32GB of DDR4, an Intel series-6 512GB m.2 NVMe and a Samsung 1TB EVO 2.5" SSD and is running VMware ESXi 6.7. The vms come and go but the more persistent ones are:

 

Tuney - my old Win 7 Pro-64 license re-purposed to just run iTunes to feed the AppleTVs in the house and automagically download movies and Music from iTunes to the FreeNAS as soon as we buy them.

Fold0: An Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Server vm that runs Zabbix and monitors all the systems.

piHole: An Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Server vm that runs the whole network ad-blocking

Blue: The backup Stats collection and HFM.net server

[Oshino Shinobu]

Was really hoping the machine named ESXi was running Hyper-V, not gonna lie.

[Gorgon]

5 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Was really hoping the machine named ESXi was running Hyper-V, not gonna lie.

I can not state just how much I abhor Hyper V and what a useless piece of excrement I have found it. Granted like, Windows Server, it will likely mature into a useful product given Microsoft’s resources but for the mean time the free version of ESXi meets my modest needs.

 

Its pretty sad that editing text files to get Tagged VLANs working on KVM is easier than trying to accomplish the same thing in HyperV outside of the Server version.

 

At work we have hundreds of VMs on ESXi and only a handful on HyperV.