Hi All, I'm after a bit of help.......The story... I have some community/not for profit websites/vm's I need to move and have arranged some hosting, but it's only 1U, (current space is 4U). I really need to run ESX as I'm running VMWare Server 2.0 right now but would like to progress (I have ESX 4 running on commodity desktop hardware at home, but the upload isn't fast enough). Trouble is as there is little capital available for a server purchase and the two 1U boxes I have lying around don't work , I need to find a good second hand option. My googling has turned up nothing concrete as I need to gaurante that whatever I buy will work. I have looked at hosting this offshore but as the hosting is very good value its not cost effective. (If you WAND boys read this, I'll move your VM onto this too...) The question............... Do you have ESX 3.5 running on older hardware and if so what is the spec/model/etc. This needs to be 1U, disk space only needs to be around 30GB. I don't think the budget will cover hardware that will run ESX 4.0 TIA, Bill
Why not just rent a VM? I'm sure we can do something special for worthy NFP. Give me a shout tomorrow.
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Bruce Trevarthen
CEO, theCloud Limited
On 13/12/2010, at 20:54, "Bill Walker"
Hi, I had ESX 3.5 running on some old HP DL360’s with Dual P3 Xeons which you should be able to find on Trademe for around $100’s Also have you considered ESXi instead of full blown ESX? Cheers Chris From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Bill Walker Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 8:54 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] Slightly OT: ESX and sub <$1000 hardware Hi All, I'm after a bit of help.......The story... I have some community/not for profit websites/vm's I need to move and have arranged some hosting, but it's only 1U, (current space is 4U). I really need to run ESX as I'm running VMWare Server 2.0 right now but would like to progress (I have ESX 4 running on commodity desktop hardware at home, but the upload isn't fast enough). Trouble is as there is little capital available for a server purchase and the two 1U boxes I have lying around don't work , I need to find a good second hand option. My googling has turned up nothing concrete as I need to gaurante that whatever I buy will work. I have looked at hosting this offshore but as the hosting is very good value its not cost effective. (If you WAND boys read this, I'll move your VM onto this too...) The question............... Do you have ESX 3.5 running on older hardware and if so what is the spec/model/etc. This needs to be 1U, disk space only needs to be around 30GB. I don't think the budget will cover hardware that will run ESX 4.0 TIA, Bill ##################################################################################### WARNING: This email and any file transmitted with it are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. You must not copy or deliver it to any other person or use the contents in any unauthorised manner without express permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail, please delete it and notify the sender as soon as possible. All outgoing emails and attached files are virus scanned, but we do not represent that this email and any attached files are free from computer viruses or other defects. Further, we do not accept any liability for any damage caused by this email or attachments. This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal #####################################################################################
Thanks all for the replies. Very helpful :-) I have direction again! On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:54:28 +1300, Bill Walker wrote: Hi All, I'm after a bit of help.......The story... I have some community/not for profit websites/vm's I need to move and have arranged some hosting, but it's only 1U, (current space is 4U). I really need to run ESX as I'm running VMWare Server 2.0 right now but would like to progress (I have ESX 4 running on commodity desktop hardware at home, but the upload isn't fast enough). Trouble is as there is little capital available for a server purchase and the two 1U boxes I have lying around don't work , I need to find a good second hand option. My googling has turned up nothing concrete as I need to gaurante that whatever I buy will work. I have looked at hosting this offshore but as the hosting is very good value its not cost effective. (If you WAND boys read this, I'll move your VM onto this too...) The question............... Do you have ESX 3.5 running on older hardware and if so what is the spec/model/etc. This needs to be 1U, disk space only needs to be around 30GB. I don't think the budget will cover hardware that will run ESX 4.0 TIA, Bill
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