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Problem is, I don't have anything to test out or to play with. Also I noticed my server in idle uses around 120-180 watts.

What do you mean you don't have anything to test with or play with? You have this server and thats more than enough alone. Just put a hypervisor on it like hyper-v or proxmox and fire up some vms and start making some virtual network and see how it goes.

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What other server do you have? add it to the vm cluster?

 

Do you care about power usage? Id be tempted to flip it

Currently I use a raspberry pi 4 4gb of ram to host my wordpress site (low amount of visitors). I do care about power usage, and I just bought the server as a project, but the project seemed kind of impossible so I decided not to do it. I could visualize it, but I don't know what to use to vms for.

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1 minute ago, MartinIAm said:

Currently I use a raspberry pi 4 4gb of ram to host my wordpress site (low amount of visitors). I do care about power usage, and I just bought the server as a project, but the project seemed kind of impossible so I decided not to do it. I could visualize it, but I don't know what to use to vms for.

VMS are great for separating out different tasks and running many different versions of a os on one piece of hardware. It would be good to play with if you haven't before. Id go put a hypervisor on it.

 

If you care about power usage, don't run this as a 24/7 server, these systems can easily use 200+w under normal load(my server sits at aound 300w under normal load, but it has a lot of cards and drives)

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

VMS are great for separating out different tasks and running many different versions of a os on one piece of hardware. It would be good to play with if you haven't before. Id go put a hypervisor on it.

 

If you care about power usage, don't run this as a 24/7 server, these systems can easily use 200+w under normal load(my server sits at aound 300w under normal load, but it has a lot of cards and drives)

Problem is, I don't have anything to test out or to play with. Also I noticed my server in idle uses around 120-180 watts.

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Problem is, I don't have anything to test out or to play with. Also I noticed my server in idle uses around 120-180 watts.

What do you mean you don't have anything to test with or play with? You have this server and thats more than enough alone. Just put a hypervisor on it like hyper-v or proxmox and fire up some vms and start making some virtual network and see how it goes.

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9 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you mean you don't have anything to test with or play with? You have this server and thats more than enough alone. Just put a hypervisor on it like hyper-v or proxmox and fire up some vms and start making some virtual network and see how it goes.

Thank you! I will most likley setup some vms to play around with!

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15 hours ago, MartinIAm said:

Thank you! I will most likley setup some vms to play around with!

I have a Dell poweredge R710 that runs unRAID and is the core for home automations, running dockers and hosting my home media works like a charm

My daily driver: The Wrath of Red: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen TR4 1950x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA621P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASRock x399 Taichi / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / Samsung 512GB 970 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor x3

 

My technology Rig: The wizard: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen R7 1800x 3.95MHz / Corsair H110i / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASUS CH 6 / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / 512GB 960 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor HP Monitor

 

My I don't use Rig: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen 1600x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA620P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / MSI x370 Gaming Pro Carbon / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / Samsung PM961 256GB M.2 PCIe Internal SSD / EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SSC GAMING / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor

 

My NAS: The storage miser: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / CPU Intel i7 6700 / Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500 Watt 80 Plus / ASUS Maximus viii Hero / 32GB Gskill RipJaw DDR4 3200Mhz / HP Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual SFP+ Ported Ethernet HCA NIC / 9 Drives total 29TB - 1 4TB seagate parity - 7 4TB WD Red data - 1 1TB laptop drive data - and 2 240GB Sandisk SSD's cache / Headless

 

Why did I buy this server: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / Dell R710 enterprise server with dual xeon E5530 / 48GB ecc ddr3 / Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT / 4 450GB sas drives / headless

 

Just another server: OS Proxmox VE / Dell poweredge R410

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23 minutes ago, mrbilky said:

I have a Dell poweredge R710 that runs unRAID and is the core for home automations, running dockers and hosting my home media works like a charm

What kind of dockers are you running? And I'm running a Dell poweredge r610

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On 10/20/2019 at 1:09 PM, MartinIAm said:

What kind of dockers are you running? And I'm running a Dell poweredge r610

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My daily driver: The Wrath of Red: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen TR4 1950x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA621P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASRock x399 Taichi / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / Samsung 512GB 970 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor x3

 

My technology Rig: The wizard: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen R7 1800x 3.95MHz / Corsair H110i / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASUS CH 6 / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / 512GB 960 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor HP Monitor

 

My I don't use Rig: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen 1600x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA620P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / MSI x370 Gaming Pro Carbon / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / Samsung PM961 256GB M.2 PCIe Internal SSD / EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SSC GAMING / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor

 

My NAS: The storage miser: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / CPU Intel i7 6700 / Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500 Watt 80 Plus / ASUS Maximus viii Hero / 32GB Gskill RipJaw DDR4 3200Mhz / HP Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual SFP+ Ported Ethernet HCA NIC / 9 Drives total 29TB - 1 4TB seagate parity - 7 4TB WD Red data - 1 1TB laptop drive data - and 2 240GB Sandisk SSD's cache / Headless

 

Why did I buy this server: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / Dell R710 enterprise server with dual xeon E5530 / 48GB ecc ddr3 / Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT / 4 450GB sas drives / headless

 

Just another server: OS Proxmox VE / Dell poweredge R410

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