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Server for Home Lab

Brain_PowerBrain_Power Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 163
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I am planning on adding a server to my home lab for VMware and HyperV. I have a Skeletek rack for 1U components.

Looking at Dell PowerEdge servers.

What type of special criteria should I be looking for in servers to handle virtualization?

Besides, Dell, what other brands do you recommend?
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    pusherpusher Member Posts: 28 ■□□□□□□□□□
    You don't need to get any extra boxes. Just get ONE very powerful (multicore cpu) box and max out the RAM (16gb). Install VMWare Workstations 8 which allows you to install nested Esxi, HyperV, etc. Very powerful stuff all in VMWare Workstation 8. You can test all the HA, vMotion, fautlt tolerance, liveMigration, etc...For shared storage, there are also many options such as MS iScsi target, OpenFiler, etc...

    Google it...many tutorials on how to set this up.
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    kemar1014kemar1014 Member Posts: 26 ■□□□□□□□□□
    I think Intel and AMD chips with hyper treading or some name like that is best. they on ebay for like $100 buck. then you just buy the RAM to upgrade it
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