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Re: [PLUG] cheapass VM host platform?
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Ron Mansolino wrote:
> I'm thinking about upgrading on of my boxes at home, and I think I'd
> like to setup a VM host.
> Mostly just to play with, but it'd be nice to back up my cloud-thingy
> and experiment with/on.
> I'm not interested in cherry-picking a bunch of stuff to put together,
> I'd rather just snipe something off of eBay and be done with it.
> what would you suggest (for example, a SOHO client, or for your lab)?
> thx
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Well, what I did was go to geeks.com and picked up an inexpensive server
(actually I bought 2 Appro 1U servers). Right now they have a decent
looking one for $130
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DL140-3R&cat=SYS. Slap Linux
and VMWare server on there and there you have it. It'll take you an
hour to get going maybe and works great here, in fact I run my entire
infrastructure on VMs. You can even run VMWare converter to convert
existing hardware to VMs.
--
-Linc Fessenden
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
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