

I don't know anyone else that has spent so many Friday nights debugging their personal domain controller at home. I worked through college doing infrastructure architecture for Fidelity, so I have had a little practice. I don't know if any of this will help you at all, but I hope it does.
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Host OS is Vista Ultimate (This box sits behind my TV and is my Media Center).6 Guest Virtual Machines: Domain Controller, Webserver, Misc Server (SVN, emulated servers, dev etc.), LAMP server, SVN server, linux test server.

4gb of Ram (AData trash I got cheaply, works like a dream).Opteron 165 (I have had it a while and its kind of old, but still a hot chip with good throughput, 2x1MB L2 cache dual core 1.8).I just want to get what I need and have dependable parts that will last a long time.Ĭlick to expand.I would suggest using Server2003 as your host OS or at least Vista and running at least 4gb of Ram if you can afford it (DDR2 is extremely cheap, I got 4gb of AData ram for 49.99). This is what I'm looking at getting, so if anybody's been in the market and can help guide me, it'd be much appreciated. I prefer not to use rack enclosures, but would rather go for a rack than end up having 3-4 huge server boxes in my closet. This server will need to be able to hold me over on these needs until I can finish my infrastructure in the next 4-5 years. That's the main idea, but what I really want is this to be the start of a larger infrastructure that will eventually have SAN devices and 2-3 more servers. Teamspeak) and Emulated ServersĢ.) Have about 1 TB on 3 drives, 2 mirrored in raid 1(2 mirrored will be used for NFS/Backups) I'm looking to set up a home server and wanted to see if anyone's knowledgable about the hardware needed to cheaply set one up, but still last 4-5 years into the future without being horribly outdated.ġ.) Virtualize 4 OS's using XenServer Expressĭ.) 1 OS is for Running Gaming Apps(ex.
