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Hi, I'm thinking about building a home server, the objective would be to provide a centralized storage to everyone the house, and at the same time having some additional services available. The idea would be to install proxmox, with some VMs and containers to provide the services and further...

Hi, I'm planning on setting up some docker containers on my home and small business network, and since I'm not an expert, I looking for some opinions on how to do it the way I'm thinking about it. Basically let's say that I would prefer not to have a monster VM running all docker containers...

Hi, Currently I'm in the process of making some changes on a small infrastructure that is composed of a few old physical machines which I want to virtualise. One of those machines is an old Windows Server 2003, that has been hosting an SSH Server (WinSSHD, or Bitvise SSH Server, an old version...

Hi, I'm negotiating a purchase of a Dell R720 with the following specs: Dell R720 SFF with 16x 2.5" bays 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v2 128Gb RAM Perc H710 Mini Raid Card The RAM memory is supposed to be PC3 10600R, but I can change it to PC3L 12800R memories, and I'm trying to understand what are...

Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this thread about iDrac questions I have. I'm planning on buying a Dell R720 which is listed as having iDrac. Just that, it only lists as having iDrac. I will make some questions to the seller to understand which version we are talking about, but in...

Hi, I currently have the following server hardware, for which I'm searching for an UPS: SuperStorage 6027R-E1R12T Motherboard Supermicro X9DRH-7TF 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630V2 128Gb ECC RAM (8x Samsung 16GB 2Rx4 DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800R ECC RDIMM RAM REG M393B2G70BH0-CK0) LSI SAS 9207-8i KIT 8-Port...

Hi, I need your help to understand if it's possible to connect a 2.5" SAS disk where a 3.5" SAS caddy is expected. I have a supermicro server with the following parts: - chassis: SSG-6027R-E1R12T - disk backplate: BPN-SAS2-826EL1 - controller: LSI SAS 9207-8i KIT 8-Port 6Gbps SATA+SAS PCI-E...

Hi, I'm in the process of finishing a new server build for proxmox virtualization. The system is running memtest to check if I'm safe with those memory sticks, and so far so good, finishing 7th pass with 0 errors so far. At the moment, my new server build goes like this: - motherboard...

Hi, Quick Intentions: Re-join a new domain in a new DC server, which has same domain name and at the same time keeping existing user profiles/settings on desktops. I need some opinions on how to re-join some desktop machines to the same domain name on a different server. The story goes like...

Hello and Happy New Year to Everyone, I'm going to put my hands on supermicro hardware to make a virtualization server, and I have a question regarding proper using it for ZFS. So first the hardware: motherboard: X9DRH-7TF Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9DRH-7TF it...

Hi There, I'm posting this message in the hope that here I find some opinions, tips, alerts on building a new server. It's a loooong message, so please bear with me, I really need opinions to make an edutated choice. My intention is to build a server for a (very) small company, in order to...