Your home Servers

[Mikensan]

If this already exists - could we get it stickied?

 

Curious what everyone is running out there, much how there's a 10TB+ NAS thread maybe we can start (and get stickied) a home servers thread? Just a generalized overview of what you have at home. I'm at work and when I get home I'll get a little more detailed about my own. Ideally I'd like to come up with a format for information - or maybe bum off of the NAS thread..

 

Really not sure how to go about this but very curious about people's @home setups, which I think is part of the curiosity/interest in the NAS thread.

 

1x Dell C1100 ($400 came with a 3TB green and the below)

        2x 5520, 32gb DDR3 ECC, 1x 500gb SSD, quad-port nic

        OS: ESXI 5.5 (flash drive)

        VMs: vCenter 5.5 (Windows 2012r2), Domain Controller, vmware Horizon 6, Exchange 2013, SQL 2014,  and a "closed" network where I'm testing sophos UTM / arch linux / unRaid (bitch to deal with as a vm)

1x IBM x3650 m2 ($230 came with a single 146gb 15k SAS drive and the below)

        2x 5520, 32gb DDR3 ECC - no drives, using ISCSI targets

        OS: Will be ESXI 5.5 - just got this server :-) might try out Linux KVM / proxmox

1x Custom Built (~$1500 so far I think)

        1x G1610, 32gb DDR3 ECC, 5x 4TB Seagate Desktop drives, 4x 3TB WD Red, 1x 160gb Intel SSD

        OS: FreeNAS 9.3 - Currently only using a CIFS share and 2 iSCSI targets, no jails or VMs.

        Raid: m1015 flashed in IT | 5x 4TB - RaidZ1 "Primary" pool, 4x 3TB Raidz2 "Backup" pool. - data is replicated from Primary to Backup nightly (only very important things)

 

 

[leadeater]

You done much testing with Horizon 6? Haven't got round to testing it yet, only did the old version 5.2. Really liked it but had a few limitations both with the hardware I was using and the product. The software client for 3D and high pixel change rate struggled a bit but that was a known limitation at the time, not sure if it is better now. Also my internet upload at the time was only 1Mb so really not enough.

 

I purchased a Dell/Wyse zero client with a Teradici chip and was planning on getting an AMD W7000 which is the cheapest supported card to use with Horizon 6. Destroyed my version 5 setup but never got round to actually installing it all again.

[Mikensan]

15 hours ago, leadeater said:

You done much testing with Horizon 6? Haven't got round to testing it yet, only did the old version 5.2. Really liked it but had a few limitations both with the hardware I was using and the product. The software client for 3D and high pixel change rate struggled a bit but that was a known limitation at the time, not sure if it is better now. Also my internet upload at the time was only 1Mb so really not enough.

 

I purchased a Dell/Wyse zero client with a Teradici chip and was planning on getting an AMD W7000 which is the cheapest supported card to use with Horizon 6. Destroyed my version 5 setup but never got round to actually installing it all again.

Not a lot yet, currently pxe booting to a linux distro and connecting to it via PCoIP. Have been looking to buy a teradici based thin client so I can play with the teradici management console (1 version behind the current is free). Friend who works for a different group where I work has that setup, very cool.