What would you do?

[r0ckstar]

Ok, so here is the setup. I recently came into a server that I have setup in my home just for messing around with. Its a HP Proliant ML350 Gen 8 with Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2620s, 96g of RAM and 2 TB of SAS storage. It is running ESXi 6.5. My home has gigabit internet (1gbs up and 1gbs down)

 

What would you guys do with a server like that in your home? I am very curious what would people would do with hardware like this.

 

I am currently running a windows 2016 server VM that runs PLEX / deluge and sonar and acts as a network storage for all other PCs in the home.

 

I also have a Ubuntu server vm that runs a webserver and MySQL server.

 

I have an OSX VM that I use just to run OSX software I play with every now and then.

 

I also have an older GTX 760 and GT1030 kicking around I can install in the server for PCI-E passthrough if someone can think of anything to do with those.

[Radium_Angel]

16 minutes ago, r0ckstar said:

I also have an older GTX 760 and GT1030 kicking around

Ensure the PCIe slot can support those.

Some servers limit the power through the PCIe slot to 25 watts...

[r0ckstar]

the servers limit I believe is ~200watts on PCI-E but the GTX 760 uses 6 pin power cable anyways and the server has spare 6 pin off the power supply anyways so power with that card is not an issue. Not sure what the GT1030 I have requires. I know it does not accept external power and uses the PCI-E slot.

 

The spec sheet for this sever also says it can handle 3 GPUs as well.

[Ashleyyyy]

i've got a ProLiant ML350 G6 that has 2 X5650's in it that i'm using as my main system.. 

 

the xeon's in my system are about 45% faster than yours: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-X5650-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2620-0/m355vsm5895

 

but still yours are quite good. what they lack though is single core speed.. so they wont be great for games. 

 

what i would use your server for is virtual machines, or as a file server.. 

[r0ckstar]

I have a Core i7 4770K with a RX580 and 16gb of Ram I use for gaming

this is just something to mess around with a learn a bit more about servers / networking.

 

Im just curious what other users would use it for. Would you install pfsense? or snort? would you use it for mining? would you create a home cloud service?