What should I do with my servers??

[redbaron28]

    

 

So i have these 3 servers and I have ran out of ideas to use they for...... Any ideas?!?!?

 

Top server: Hp DL380 G6 32GB ddr3 ram 2 xeon 6-core cpus

 

Middle server: Hp DL165 G7 48GB ddr3 ram 2 AMD 12 core cpus

 

Bottom server: HP DL380 G5 2 dual core xeon cpu 8GB ram  (Using as a router)

 

Switch: Cisco SG-200-26 Managed switch

 

 

 

Thank you for your comments!!

[Aytex]

make a miewnkwaft survur

[Danielh90]

give them to me please  

[redbaron28]

lel I'm just trying to think of other ways to use them.

[Lurick]

Game servers, voice servers (eg: Mumble), DNS/NTP, FTP servers, File Servers, pfSense/firewall

[failblox]

Make a badass NAS and use the other servers for backups.

[Malagan]

1 - Forget about the G5... too much power consuming and loud...

2 - DL380 G6 for iSCSI and CIFS/NFS storage using Nexenta (community edition) or FreeNAS as SAN/NAS

3 - DL165 G7 for virtualization with XenServer, KVM or Proxmox with target iScsi to the DL380 G6.

 

You can configure 2 Nic with 4x 1Gb port in active-active mode and set the MTU to something like 9000 for better performance on both DL380 G5 and DL165 G7 for the iSCSI link. You may need a dedicated switch at least a Layer 2 managed  to achieve this.....

 

You can virtualize a pfSense router on the DL165 to get rid of the DL380 G5...

 

I personally use Nexenta (licenced version with 32TB NL-SAS raw with SSD and L2ARC cache/log) as main SAN/NAS at my job and 4 DL160 G6 on XenServer for virtualization. We use a homemade Freenas server as a backup of the Nexenta.

 

 

 

 

[Ben Potter]

I would just do some Active Directory experiments just because it's pretty cool and useful knowledge for the future. Some virtualization would be fun.

 

Something kind of interesting I discovered: SoundWire allows you to broadcast your sound over the network to be picked up by a phone app and it will play it with the phone speaker. You can host the server on the network and then access it from your smartphone. You could do a constant playlist, radio feed, etc.

[redbaron28]

Thank you all that have commented pretty cool things i should try. If you have anymore ideas just post them Thanks!!