Build’s Name: The Sh*tHeap (I call all my projects Sh*tHeap, My Harley-Davidson, My Turbocharged Mustang... ETC. I think you get it)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition w/ Hyper-V and Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1230
Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F-O
Chassis: Rosewill RSV-L4411
Drives: Crucial M4 64 GB Boot Drive - 8x 2TB Hitachi 7K3000 - 4x Western Digital 500 GB RE3
RAM: 16 GB Kingston ECC UDIMM
Add-in Cards: IBM ServRAID M1015 flashed w/ LSI SAS9211-8i IR mode - 3Ware 9650SE - 2x Intel Dual Port Server Adapters for MPIO
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts EA-650 GREEN
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: Hypervisor w/ 4-6 Virtual Machines - Storage for media, movies, music, photos, data, backups, User home folders - Air Playit streaming for iOS and Android devices
I have a Windows 7 Pro, Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller, 2x dev web servers running CentOs and Ubuntu Server. I also do testing of other Linux distros for Hyper-V compatibility testing.
This server also does all my DVD Ripping and Converting. I use Handbrake with libdvdcs.
This server has transformed a bit over the last 9 months since my previous post, thought I would update it.
Operating System/ Storage Platform: Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition w/ Hyper-V and Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1230
Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F-O
Chassis: Rosewill RSV-L4411
Drives: Crucial M4 64 GB Boot Drive - 8x 2TB Hitachi 7K3000 - 4x Western Digital 500 GB RE3
RAM: 16 GB Kingston ECC UDIMM
Add-in Cards: IBM ServRAID M1015 flashed w/ LSI SAS9211-8i IR mode - 3Ware 9650SE - 2x Intel Dual Port Server Adapters for MPIO
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts EA-650 GREEN
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: Hypervisor w/ 4-6 Virtual Machines - Storage for media, movies, music, photos, data, backups, User home folders - Air Playit streaming for iOS and Android devices
I have a Windows 7 Pro, Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller, 2x dev web servers running CentOs and Ubuntu Server. I also do testing of other Linux distros for Hyper-V compatibility testing.
This server also does all my DVD Ripping and Converting. I use Handbrake with libdvdcs.
This server has transformed a bit over the last 9 months since my previous post, thought I would update it.
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