On 2016-02-13 22:05, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/13/2016 08:32 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
And it must draw a lot of electricity... why use it at all? :-? :-)
Depending on the amount of power required and the fan noise, in the long run, I may not. But no true geek would pass up the opportunity to play with an hand-me-down industrial size server from an ISP. It's just too good an opportunity to spend $100 on parts (another 40G of RAM off eBay ($40) and 2 more opteron processors ($39) and a replacement heat sink & fan ($16)) -- and play :)
Who knows, if the FX-8350 w/16G will build KDE3 in a little over 3 hours, maybe this guy can cut it down to 2?
Plus, I couldn't think of a better platform to see how many different ways I could play with virtualization. I've not done a bare-metal type virtualization before. I'll try the normal route with a normal base OS first, but then I want to look at the bare-metal vmware offering and a couple of others. Lot's of reading to do....
Good enough! :-)) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)