I got one of these suckers for free from work.
I already have a home server setup for Plex, backups, seedbox, etc.
Any use for this guy? i7 and 16gb RAM, so it's got a decent amount of power.
>>55539841
throw it away you already got plex,backups,seedbox
>>55539841
>i7 and 16gb RAM
Renderfarm node or virtualization
>>55539871
I was looking into virtualization - assuming I want something like vmware vsphere instead of just installing VMs via virtual box or something similar?
>>55539841
Load balance your current home server? Replicate your backups? Use this as a secondary seedbox? Something new altogether?
>>55539936
>assuming I want something like vmware vsphere
Yes, ESXi is the go to for virtualization.
Else HyperV is also an option.
>>55539841
Give it to me, Its more powerful than my main rig
I want one as a Linux box separate from my Windows PC. If I already had NAS setup then that would be ideal.
>>55539841
If you're doing any Plex transcoding, depending on what your server is, I'd move it to this.
Otherwise, ESXi or Hyper-V work well for virtualization on them.
You lucky bastard. Anyway, definitely transcoding or some kind of virtualisation.
>>55540183
>>55540199
It's more powerful than the current server but migrating things over would be a pain, and I haven't hit any bottlenecks with the other server that would really prompt me to want to upgrade
I don't have a pure Linux box like >>55540110 suggested, so that's a possibility... though I don't have much use for one
HyperV might be good, it can virtualize Linux machines correct?
