: Your home XEN server lab hardware specs?

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dashpuppy

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No one has created this yet, and more and more people are using it. I just switched :) so i guess i should start this thread :)

Xen 6.0
Intel Xeon 3430 quad core
Kingston DDR3 ECC 32 gigs ram
Asus RS300 1 u server ( very quiet unit )
1 samsung 1tb hard drive ( soon to be a ssd drive )
2 on oard intel Nic's
1 HP dual port gigabit PCI-E card

Screen shot.

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Asus RS300 Server,
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It's not a big deal for me ... I will get around to posting my specs ..and will go back to updating the "all things xen" thread.

I'm just glad to see people trickle into the Xen World on this forum.
 
Netwerkz101 said:
It's not a big deal for me ... I will get around to posting my specs ..and will go back to updating the "all things xen" thread.

I'm just glad to see people trickle into the Xen World on this forum.
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I actually like it, pretty sweet os..
 
Starting to look at Xen server. Need to find some hardware to play with it with.
 
been using xenserver since 5.4, been switching between esxi and xenserver during the initial stage.... end up staying with xenserver till now....
 
I have an R200
2 x 500GB SATA in RAID 1 on a Perc6
8GB DDR ECC

All on the end of a 100Mbps / 100Mbps line. :)

I then have a VPN back to my home.
 
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XenServer (x2):
- Dell PowerEdge T110
- Intel Xeon X3440 Quad-Core CPU
- 16GB RAM
- Crucial M3 64GB SSD boot drive

XenStorage:
- Dell PowerEdge T110
- Intel Celeron Dual Core CPU
- 8GB RAM
- 4GB Kingston USB boot drive
- 2x PERC H700 RAID controllers
- 8x 500GB 2.5" - not yet using
- 4x 1TB 3.5"
- FreeNAS 8.01 - NFS only
 
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Any one use iscsi ? I went with iscsi because i wanted multi path. However it's so much harder to backup :(

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Just setup my first physical XenServer box after messing with it in VirtualBox for awhile:
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Very pleased with the result. Onboard NIC needed a bios update to work, but GPU passthough worked off the bat with XenCenter and passing a USB3 controller though to the same VM was just a few commands.

Host
Mobo: Asrock 970 Extreme3 R2.0
CPU: Phenom II X6 1090T
Heatsink: Corsair Hydro H70
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5
RAM: Corsair XMS DDR3 2 x 4GB 1600GHz
SSD: Crucial M4 128GB SATA III​

FreeNAS
Mobo: Asus M4A88TD-M/USB3
CPU: Athlon II X2 270U
RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 1 x 8GB DDR3-1333 ECC Very Low Profile
HDDs: Hitachi Deskstar 2TB (5K3000) x2 (zfs mirror)
WD Caviar Green 1TB (WD10EACS) x2 (zfs mirror)
NIC: HP NC360T Dual Port (cheap!)​

Need more ram and another HP (Intel) NIC for the Host, then I can start thinking about a second more efficient 24/7 host to pool.
 
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