Building some power

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:01 pm

Proliant DL380 G6 just arrived
Dual Xeon X5520 quad core, 8 meg cache each
16 gigs of RAM
Will be running on fiber SAN drives...4x 300 gig 15,000rpm drives

Can't wait to load this puppy up, should make a nice bump in my folding.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:07 pm

yet another reason to hate ya.

prolly get you at least 15fps in Freecell

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:11 pm

Faust wrote: prolly get you at least 15fps in Freecell

Yeah that mighty ATI onboard server vid card. Wonder how Quake Live will run on her!

Gonna be running 3-4 servers inside of her actually...first install VMWare ESXi, then then do a few "P to V conversions" ....suck in the image of existing running physical servers and convert tyem to running virtual servers, all done on the fly with only a brief interruption, so I can retire those old physical boxes.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:29 pm

nice!

virtualization is (in my opinion) where its at/where things are headed, in addition to cloud computing.

been wanting to get a box built for (citrix) xenserver, but just dont have the liquid funds yet. no virtualization support with the hardware i have atm.

im familiar the ghetto virtualization through virtual box, but thats not quite on the same tier. is vmware similar to xenserver in its system requirements? or is it less control-happy, like v box?

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:24 pm

Sounds fast but does notepad open any faster.