Today I bought a pair of used HP DL380 (Gen 5) rackable servers.<\/p>\n
The bottom line is that if I bought them as a pair, I could get\u00a0them for a very good, heavily discounted price.<\/p>\n
The servers have been refurbed back to the core.<\/p>\n
Each server comes with\u00a02x Quad Core Xeon 2.33Ghz processors.<\/p>\n
And each server also comes with 16GB of RAM.<\/p>\n
So they are RAIDed, VMWare-ready, and sufficiently powered to do the kind of thing I want them to do.<\/p>\n
Well.<\/p>\n
Overpowered might be more accurate.<\/p>\n
But there’s no such thing as having too much processing power, eh?<\/p>\n
The downside is that although each server has 8 bays, neither has any disks, so I’ll have to buy those separately.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided that I’ll buy two pairs of disks, a pair for each server.<\/p>\n
When I’ve installed the disks, I’ll install CentOS on each server, and virtualise the platforms.<\/p>\n
Then, as I add more disks to each server, over time, I just need to resize the virtualised environments to take advantage of the increased disk capacity.<\/p>\n
Within the virtualised environments on each physical server, I can create a number of virtual servers (VMs).<\/p>\n
So each physical server could host, for example, ten VMs.<\/p>\n
A total of 20 virtual servers.<\/p>\n
I’m really looking forward to some first-class geekage.<\/p>\n
I’m also very excited because this is the first step down the path of a new business venture that I want to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I bought a pair of used HP DL380 (Gen 5) rackable servers. The bottom line is that if I bought them as a pair, I could get\u00a0them for a very good, heavily discounted price. The servers have been refurbed back to the core. Each server comes with\u00a02x Quad Core \u2026 Continue reading