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I snapped up an old Dell T710 2-socket, 12 CPU, 24-thread Xeon rack, PERc 6 RAID for $100, populated with cheap Seagate 2TB IronWolf HDs, leftover 1033Mz DDR3 t
by egberts1 6y ago
I snapped up an old Dell T710 2-socket, 12 CPU, 24-thread Xeon rack, PERc 6 RAID for $100, populated with cheap Seagate 2TB IronWolf HDs, leftover 1033Mz DDR3 to 96GB for 3 RAID HD groups (RAID 1 for OS, RAID5 for data, and JBOD for VM images.)
Has a pfSense/FreeBSD VM for a gateway and a bunch of VMs on a detached bridge. Also have several more bridges for test VMs for real-world airgapped network setup.
8 different OS distros. Also am tweaking a MIPS and a M1 QEMUs outside of Proxmox .
runs very quiet.
so now it’s my home datacenter.
- joshspankit 6y agoI have something very similar, but an Optiplex. One thing I had to do recently though is swap pfsense for Untangle because of drastically better FQ-CoDel implementation in Untangle.
- egberts1 6y agoI went over to Untangle website for any data sheet but was unable to get one immediately (have to fork over everything but your youngest child, so to speak in order to get it. Not sure why would one even do that. :-(
- joshspankit 6y agoI don’t want to sidetrack this in to an Untangle conversation, but yes: it’s fundamentally not free as in speech while also being supported as though it’s just a thin shell over Debian. However, the YouTube breakdown by Battle(non)sense was conclusive (and is confirmed in my case in undeniable ways) so I switched.