servers Show us your Servers - 2014 Edition

[b10h4z4rd]

The one on the right is more or less my server, mainly used for Plex.

Specs:

Thermaltake Core V1 Extreme Mini ITX Cube Chassis

Crucial Ballistix Sport 8 GB DDR3

MSI AM1I AM1 Mini ITX

AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini Quad-Core 2.05 GHz

EVGA 500W PSU

2 TB Western Digital Green Hard Drive

 

Looking at getting a PCI-E SATA card w/ RAID and getting 2 SSDs and 2 new HDDs.

[ultimate99]

 

I did exactly that. I went from Home Server 2011 to Server 2012 R2 Essentials which runs in a VM. I've passed a Highpoint Rocket 2720SGL SATA controller through to the VM so it has direct access to physical drives. Currently I have 4x 4TB drives connected up, with space for 4 more in the future.

There?s also a registry hack which allows Windows Server backup you devices without them been joined to a domain, exactly like Home Server 2011 could do.

 

I don't understand how this could be done? I have a server that runs windows server 2012 r2 and I use remote desktop connection to access it from my laptop. How can a VM be involved?

[remixedcat]

RDP

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

I don't understand how this could be done? I have a server that runs windows server 2012 r2 and I use remote desktop connection to access it from my laptop. How can a VM be involved?

My physical server has VMware ESXi installed as its OS, this is bare metal hypervisor. Basically this is an operating system that is dedicated to running Virtual Machines.

The server boots ESXi, then all my virtual machines boot.

I can then simply access Windows VM's via Remote Desktop, or Linux VM's via SSH.

[Adster01]

 

Running VMWARE ESXi with server Essentials 2012, PFSense and Elementary and 2nd box running NAS4FREE.