[ale] Rack Server getting dusty

[JD]

Proxmox VM server. This gives you KVM and OpenVZ virtualization
platform.  Then you can drop any 20 distros on it inside VMs and learn
anything.  psSense, Smoothwall, Backtrack, Ubuntu Server, CentOS, Ubuntu
Natty, Fedoria, FreeNAS, OpenNAS, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Windows 2008R2,
or whatever.
LAMP, C++ Dev server, RoR, Perl, Java (yuck).
Setup Zimbra, Alfresco, MediaWiki, Redmine, Bacula servers and keep them
separate for easy upgrades and maintenance.  Learn to manage 20 servers
efficiently like a business would - use Puppet.  Also learn about VM
sprawl. ;)

You didn't say how much disk, networking, RAM or what types of CPUs you
have.  You're good with just VT-x support as a min. Any other issue is
probably $50 to fix.

If you eventually add another box, you can create a Virtualization
cluster with VM migration capabilities.

The world becomes pretty limitless.


On 05/05/2011 02:48 PM, Shade Alabsa wrote:
> Hey  All! I have an old rack server I obtained for a class. Right now
> it's just sitting and I want to use it for something but I'm not sure
> what I should do with it. I was thinking about setting it up as a web
> server but since I've already done that with another computer I kind
> of want to try something else out. Any ideas of what I can use it for?
> Ideally I'd like to use for something useful but also something I can
> learn from and apply it later on.
> 
> Thanks!
> Shade
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