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Some of the threads created in the Server forum the past few days are very 'home' stuff, and the replies they receive is super-lame homebuilt forum quality posts.

Why is no one asking the harder enterprise stuff for me to answer?

Maybe I should go spend more time in the Storage forum again and try to see if there's any SAN related threads in there.

It is good we have you there to answer that stuff.

Iv'e built quite a few Chenbro small servers for businesses in the past but I just do the hardware ... can't be stuffed with the software side of that world.

I usually tell them to stuff the thing full of RAM, get the fastest / most cores they can afford, and a suitable conservative RAID setup ...

Hence ... over to someone like you for finer grained advice regarding servers.

Hell ... my knowledge really stops there.

My Compaz server here has linux on a 1.2Gb HDD ... LOL

WHAT?!?!?! My section is being haragued


might have to go visit there now

I know exactly why you want to mess with SPARC, it may not be as good as x86-64 in terms of general usage (or performance) as they're tuned to be very specific, but knowing something about it is always good.
The entry price to used SPARC hardware (several thousands, new price is 10s-thousands) has always kept me out of it unfortunately so I have absolutely zero experience nor knowledge about them.

What's the usage of the server you intend to build?

My latest craze atm is "100% uptime" and that include clusters of baremetal hypervisor boxes running ESX/ESXi 4 (whitebox building) to do things like vMotion and VMWare HA, building dedicated software iSCSI SAN target box (storage clustering seems a bit out of my reach atm) and trying do that with only 3 nodes(all DIY boxes) for SMB/SME usage. Basically I'm trying to be my own vendor by creating a complete solution, for myself.

For software iSCSI SAN target I've put down OpenSolaris (x86-64 obviously) as one of the candidates. The rest are BSD/Linux distros like OpenFiler and FreeNAS. Then there's Windows Storage Server 2008.

This is the thread I've been posting my brainstorm ideas in if you're interested. It's a very long-term project as I'm very budget limited and want to plan it right.

Sometimes I want to set Windows on fire. But it's software, so that makes it a bit hard.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Heinek [...] M_comments

Note I made some appropriate comments for that article after road testing the Keg.

I did damage a good gaming mouse ... retired it from serious competition.

Also suffered a headache next day ... possibly unrelated ... possibly not.

Attempts to drive the jeep on Crysis was poor ... as was all attempts at stealth using the cloak.

If a man needs a robot to get his beer then I wonder what will become of his wife?

I asked mine and she caused the damage to my hand and the mouse.

Just curious, is that really how you look like?

n00bs

Crysis multiplayer is for FPS n00bs... and cheaters

That's just a crap game.

Best. Picture. Ever.

Psh, anything is possible! I'm sure there's a virus out there somewhere that starts deleting Windows while showing a picture of a flame!

Unfarkinbelievable, after all those years xcpus is still censored even with the old mod team gone (cept one). PM'ing Justin to fix it.
This should work now.

"NAS/Fileserver/Print server and possibly AV scan/Firewall", that's all?
This is the list of of active VMs I currently run on my server (ESX 4):
-Asterisk server (currently using Trixbox, will switch to Elastix when 2.0 is released)
-Vyatta (a router+firewall distro. pfSense currently inactive)
-OpenFiler (iSCSI SAN target and NAS hybrid)
-Server 2008 R2 + Exchange 2010
-CactiEZ (for SNMP monitoring)
-F@H #1
-F@H #2 (occasionally inactive when I need to run more VMs)

I need a physical Windows box though for TV tuners consolidation and not putting the box to waste, to double as an dedicated iSCSI SAN target also. So that means running Microsoft software iSCSI target. I'll wait till the next Windows Server release which will include it and not as separate with WSS08. Currently WSS08 is based on NT6 and not NT6.1.

I've been trying to get the x_cpus domain removed from the filter for a while, but there's a bug (no way!) in the language filter system that is preventing it from being removed. Oddly enough, hardwarecanucks got off the list fine.

Yeah but random we don't want x_cpus taken off the list.

A whole heap of really disgruntled ex-THG evil people reside there and they eat human flesh and dance naked around burning cats ...

wuzy, justin said (when he removed hardwarecanucks) that he thought it was being "spammed".

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/32608-12-filter

Why?

*fourth pic

If that's where you go to die then bring on the pearly gates!

I'd prefer "postless" but your comment is essentially correct.

Need lunch, NOW! *got hungry after seeing all those cats*

Side note; I think I've become like an expert in jailbaits after gotten dragged to spending one whole day with a group of them last weekend. Long story...

We have the time.....
Entertain us with thy worth story!

Sucks to have your ISP.

Ah jailbait. I demand pictures or even video as proof that the said events actually happened and were not the figment of a filthy old man's imagination.

Holy crap why did you tell me that Random!!!

Shadow you sick pervert

and strangestranger go back to the old man and woman clubs.......freaks the whole lot of you

sicko

COX is an SIP and i used to have Comcast

no you aren't a benevolent cat random don't get any ideas