Server For My School

tikker · April 2, 2018

30 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

With both the opteron servers in my signature at like 80-100% load each, They pull together 890-900W; so really not that much.

Not sure what they pull idle really, they are never idle. They mine crypto.

Thanks, that's not too bad, might be worth looking into for a small compute cluster at home.

leadeater · April 2, 2018

2 hours ago, suchamoneypit said:

But why use ESXi?

Windows Server supports Hyper-V natively for running VMs, what makes ESXi superior?

I'm not trying to argue i'm legitimately curious

2 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

ESXi is essentially the de facto standard for Hypervisors. The UI in my opinion is far superior to that of Hyper-V. They support similar features, but I personally much prefer ESXi.

And the fact that VMware was the first in the game by many years is a large contributor to that. Both are great.

dalekphalm · April 2, 2018

Just now, leadeater said:

And the fact that VMware was the first in the game by many years is a large contributor to that. Both are great.

Yep some prefer one over the other. As long as the product has the features you want, either is a good choice - whatever the client prefers (client being the SysAdmin).