Home Data Center - VM Activty/Mangement

A short video to show several VM's running on two separate ESX 3.5i hosts being managed from one desktop. I show an RDP session of my primary server which is an HP DL380 G3, 2x Xeon 3.06 Ghz, 12 GB Ram, 6x 34.6 GB Hd's in RAID 5, running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. This Server is attached to 14-disk Compaq storage array which is composed of two independent RAID 5 arrays. The first array is 8x 72.8 GB HD's for a total of 474 GB of usable space. The second array is made up of 6x 146 GB Hd's for 683 GB of usable space. The second array is where all of my VM's (Running), VM's (Not running), ISO's, Images, and preconcifgured VM's are stored. This server has four NIC's installed in it. 1x Public connection, 2x private connection, 1x Software Based SAN. All VM's on this network utilize the software based SAN and do not use local storage.

That was just a little info for all. Thanks!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Data Center
• Home server
• virtual machine
• software SAN
• iSCSI
• home data center

[simplex237]

you should get a prolant dl380

[josh2beefy]

@simplex237 in the video I show 2x Proliant DL380's. One a G2 and one a G3

[hechter80]

not realy profesionall - who use SAN with 100 mbit/s

[josh2beefy]

@hechter80 I do, as the video shows. Sense a theme here at all? ESXi (Free), Starwind (Free), 2 servers for ESXi ($120), making as much money as possible with minimum investment (Priceless)

[hechter80]

not realy prof datacenter if you use SAN over ethernet with 100 mbit/s - see 0:14

[gemini5865]

All I can say Josh is well done. One man show with the right kind of drive and a bit of knowledge, goes a long way. Things may not be "how they do it downtown" but if it works and does what you need for the price you need then go for it.! I live in an area that can mainly be serviced by wireless DSL or wireless broadband. There is no wired DSL for around 200 homes. I am currently looking into options of a microwave link with a regional ISP and service whatever homes I can myself, as well host.

[JineshJK]

Ha What is that?? I dont know anything about Networking...

Is there any good Network teaching websites or books??

Pls Help??

[Theserversman]

Very nice mate :)

[simplex237]

@josh2beefy oh now what I ment to say is you should get a prolant dl380 G6

[josh2beefy]

@amw3000 Starwind is running on a separate box, Windows Server 2003 x86, feeding two separate boxes running ESXi 3.5. There is no automatic fail-over setup, all manual. The data is backed up from the iSCSi server to my storage shelf which is composed of two logical drives, 2x copies of the data on each logical drive updated twice daily.

[amw3000]

@josh2beefy And is it running in a VM or do you have a dedicated box for it? How do you back it up?

[josh2beefy]

@XtR0pX What is your definition of hosting? My definition of hosting is providing services for clients (e-mail, database, web, off-site storage) utilizing equipment I own. I provide the hardware, I provide the platform, they provide the data and I get paid! Everyone's a happy camper!