Hey Guys
So Im thinking about buying a C6100 from Ebay to get a home lab up and running so i can can work towards a VMware vSphere Certification. From what i have read the Dell C6100 seems to be a good option for this.
Just wanted to get some advice from the people of this forum who likely have much more expertise than me.
What do you guys think of this:
Dell C6100 C6105 Cloud Server 6X 1 8GHz AMD 6 Core HEX Core 144GB RAM 4X 250GB | eBay
Its got three Nodes with all the ram ill ever need and 6 Core AMDs @ 1.8Ghz.
Im pretty sure I will go with this however as a point of comparison i also looked at an Intel version:
Dell Poweredge C6100 2U 4X Xeon QC L5520 2 26GHz 2X Nodes 4X Trays 48GB DDR3 | eBay
Its only got 2 Nodes max but uses XEON 2.26Ghz processor, which i think would provide abit more power if I ever decide to run up a VM for video rendering (i like to dabble in video editing) or some other CPU intensive task. Am i right in this assumption? The other thing Im worried about it the Two Node maximum, I think with the three Node of the AMD version i can test and learn some more dynamic configurations, Which after all is the primary reason i am getting this.
So at the moment I think Im going to get the AMD version, just means i will have to track down some PCI risers as they are not included and I would like to put a 4 port NIC in each node (im a network guy), i get the impression that these PCI risers are hard to track down, am i right?
Anyway just wanted to get some opinions on this before I make the purchase in case im missing any gotchas. Any thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew
So Im thinking about buying a C6100 from Ebay to get a home lab up and running so i can can work towards a VMware vSphere Certification. From what i have read the Dell C6100 seems to be a good option for this.
Just wanted to get some advice from the people of this forum who likely have much more expertise than me.
What do you guys think of this:
Dell C6100 C6105 Cloud Server 6X 1 8GHz AMD 6 Core HEX Core 144GB RAM 4X 250GB | eBay
Its got three Nodes with all the ram ill ever need and 6 Core AMDs @ 1.8Ghz.
Im pretty sure I will go with this however as a point of comparison i also looked at an Intel version:
Dell Poweredge C6100 2U 4X Xeon QC L5520 2 26GHz 2X Nodes 4X Trays 48GB DDR3 | eBay
Its only got 2 Nodes max but uses XEON 2.26Ghz processor, which i think would provide abit more power if I ever decide to run up a VM for video rendering (i like to dabble in video editing) or some other CPU intensive task. Am i right in this assumption? The other thing Im worried about it the Two Node maximum, I think with the three Node of the AMD version i can test and learn some more dynamic configurations, Which after all is the primary reason i am getting this.
So at the moment I think Im going to get the AMD version, just means i will have to track down some PCI risers as they are not included and I would like to put a 4 port NIC in each node (im a network guy), i get the impression that these PCI risers are hard to track down, am i right?
Anyway just wanted to get some opinions on this before I make the purchase in case im missing any gotchas. Any thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew