PowerEdge T110

Does anyone have a T110 for an ESXI box? According to the official HCL, the T310 is supported but I want to know if anyone is running ESXi on one.

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wirerat

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Bl8ckr0uter

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Tackle

Bl8ckr0uter wrote: »

Does anyone have a T110 for an ESXI box? According to the official HCL, the T310 is supported but I want to know if anyone is running ESXi on one.

Yes, I personally have one at home and run ESXi 4.1 on it. I also purchased one for work and run 4.1 on it as well. They are a nice server for R & D and home environment. At work we use it to run servers that we are testing. For some reason though, it randomly shuts down all the VM's and looses connection to the Vsphere. Mine at home never has this issue.

I used the dell version of 4.1 which has some dell specifics. Xeons in both.

Bl8ckr0uter

LucasMN wrote: »

Yes, I personally have one at home and run ESXi 4.1 on it. I also purchased one for work and run 4.1 on it as well. They are a nice server for R & D and home environment. At work we use it to run servers that we are testing. For some reason though, it randomly shuts down all the VM's and looses connection to the Vsphere. Mine at home never has this issue.

I used the dell version of 4.1 which has some dell specifics. Xeons in both.

Awesome. Do you run 1 or 2 for Vmotion?

Tackle

I guess I'm not sure what you mean. I've never used Vmotion. We use 2 SAN's at work. Each disk on the SAN is mirrored, and we take weekly full backups to the other SAN. Our downtime is minimal if ones SAN fails, we just have to fire up the VM's from the other SAN.

Bl8ckr0uter

LucasMN wrote: »

I guess I'm not sure what you mean. I've never used Vmotion. We use 2 SAN's at work. Each disk on the SAN is mirrored, and we take weekly full backups to the other SAN. Our downtime is minimal if ones SAN fails, we just have to fire up the VM's from the other SAN.

Interesting.

VMware vMotion for Live Migration of Virtual Machines

cyberguypr

Our production environment has Vmotion on some boxes and High Availability on others. I've been looking into a lab setup for home to play with this and the T110 is currently at the top of my list. Check the links below.

vm-help.com - View topic - Dell PowerEdge T110, 8 gigs of RAM, VT on in BIOS, $650

VMware Communities: ESX4 on Poweredge T110?

Tackle

Bl8ckr0uter, I looked at the link you posted and Vmotion looks like the way to go for most companies. That could be very handy. I don't think the owner would splurge on spending the money for that. They had a hard time spending the money on the T110 so we could have something for failover incase our main Dell ever went down.