Chiropteran
Diamond Member
New Dell nehalem-based server, mine has a xeon x3440, which is the 2.53ghz variation with hyper-threading. Bought the cheap base model with only the CPU upgraded, was around $450, included a 160GB hard drive and 2GB RAM but I figured I'd rather just upgrade those myself than pay Dell.
Installed ESXi 4.0 when it arrived, but it didn't see the hard disk. Fortunately ESXi 4.0 update 1 fixed this, installed it the day it came out a week later.
2 2GB RAM DIMMS from crucial arrived the other day, and I installed them along with some old raptor 36GB drives I had, and a newer 7200rpm 640GB drive.
Running 4 differnt VMs on the server now, windows home server, windows server 2008 r2, windows xp, and ubuntu linux 9.10
Installed ESXi 4.0 when it arrived, but it didn't see the hard disk. Fortunately ESXi 4.0 update 1 fixed this, installed it the day it came out a week later.
2 2GB RAM DIMMS from crucial arrived the other day, and I installed them along with some old raptor 36GB drives I had, and a newer 7200rpm 640GB drive.
Running 4 differnt VMs on the server now, windows home server, windows server 2008 r2, windows xp, and ubuntu linux 9.10
