- Jan 30, 2012
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Hi all,
I have been working on certs of late. I had a home server with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise running (through Technet) and liked it, but I've also been wanting to get some VMWare experience. The motherboard on my home server died the other day. Now I'll be upgrading my server, obviously, and I thought this might be a good time to do VMWare ESXi.
I have a few goals for this server. I would like to run Untangle on here (another reason for wanting to go VMWare), Server 2008 Ent., and maybe Windows Home Server.
Would you guys do all of this on one machine?
My plan is to use WHS largely as a source of pooling HDDs for storage and choosing what data is duplicated. I would also like to set it up as a DVR from an HDHomeRunPrime and for streaming out data to various other devices. I've also considered Unraid, but that would be a separate machine. I'm not 100% sure that I want to do that, although I'm still considering it.
VMWare would be running the 3 main installs mentioned, but maybe also a few other VMs for testing/playing/Cisco labbing (I've got a physical rack for my CCNA/CCNP... gonna need machines to ping from/to
).
Untangle is fairly obvious. I'll be using it as a general firewall/router (with dedicated NICs) and will probably use OpenVPN through it as well, if not as another VM.
Any thoughts on this? My main thought is keeping everything in one physical machine would be more efficient overall and obviously would also take up less space (living in a 1 bedroom apartment for now).
Thanks,
Brandon
I have been working on certs of late. I had a home server with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise running (through Technet) and liked it, but I've also been wanting to get some VMWare experience. The motherboard on my home server died the other day. Now I'll be upgrading my server, obviously, and I thought this might be a good time to do VMWare ESXi.
I have a few goals for this server. I would like to run Untangle on here (another reason for wanting to go VMWare), Server 2008 Ent., and maybe Windows Home Server.
Would you guys do all of this on one machine?
My plan is to use WHS largely as a source of pooling HDDs for storage and choosing what data is duplicated. I would also like to set it up as a DVR from an HDHomeRunPrime and for streaming out data to various other devices. I've also considered Unraid, but that would be a separate machine. I'm not 100% sure that I want to do that, although I'm still considering it.
VMWare would be running the 3 main installs mentioned, but maybe also a few other VMs for testing/playing/Cisco labbing (I've got a physical rack for my CCNA/CCNP... gonna need machines to ping from/to
Untangle is fairly obvious. I'll be using it as a general firewall/router (with dedicated NICs) and will probably use OpenVPN through it as well, if not as another VM.
Any thoughts on this? My main thought is keeping everything in one physical machine would be more efficient overall and obviously would also take up less space (living in a 1 bedroom apartment for now).
Thanks,
Brandon