Hi guys!
I didn't know if i was going to introduce myself, but i'll go anyways Feel free to delete my post if it violates something or anything, lol.
Anyways, i'm a second year student, studying computer engineering in Norway, i took the route of network and security instead of pure programming so i wouldn't have to just sit on my computer all day (Lol it's what i do anyways when i'm at home). We are 17 in our class, the rest of them (90 that is) took programming.
I have a background as an certified telecommunication technician, worked 8 years with fiber that is, doing everything from installing, splicing, pole climbing etc.
I found this forum while reading about the c6100, i've just ordered one from ebay in parts, don't know if it was a good idea or
4 nodes.
8xl5520
192gb ram (4gb sticks)
10 hdd trays
1x Psu
I paid around 700usd for all of this including shipping to Norway. Was this terrible overpriced?
I'm looking forward to a lot of fun and grief with this project, as it's my first with real server HW!
I will retire my old homebuilt server, a crappy gigabyte motherboard, i5 2500. and around 12tb of storage.
What are the first thing i should do when i get this stuff? install Cent OS or?
Any tips would be highly appreciated! Also i have a couple of VM's i'll have to transfer over from virtualbox, but i guess i can export them to VMware or something.
Anyways i'm also looking forward to spend some more time on this forum, and hopefully learn a lot of things! ^^
Thanks guys! Hope it wasn't too long of an introduction
I didn't know if i was going to introduce myself, but i'll go anyways Feel free to delete my post if it violates something or anything, lol.
Anyways, i'm a second year student, studying computer engineering in Norway, i took the route of network and security instead of pure programming so i wouldn't have to just sit on my computer all day (Lol it's what i do anyways when i'm at home). We are 17 in our class, the rest of them (90 that is) took programming.
I have a background as an certified telecommunication technician, worked 8 years with fiber that is, doing everything from installing, splicing, pole climbing etc.
I found this forum while reading about the c6100, i've just ordered one from ebay in parts, don't know if it was a good idea or
4 nodes.
8xl5520
192gb ram (4gb sticks)
10 hdd trays
1x Psu
I paid around 700usd for all of this including shipping to Norway. Was this terrible overpriced?
I'm looking forward to a lot of fun and grief with this project, as it's my first with real server HW!
I will retire my old homebuilt server, a crappy gigabyte motherboard, i5 2500. and around 12tb of storage.
What are the first thing i should do when i get this stuff? install Cent OS or?
Any tips would be highly appreciated! Also i have a couple of VM's i'll have to transfer over from virtualbox, but i guess i can export them to VMware or something.
Anyways i'm also looking forward to spend some more time on this forum, and hopefully learn a lot of things! ^^
Thanks guys! Hope it wasn't too long of an introduction