tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70821548868115130412011-08-30T15:13:35.968-07:00blog-what-blogDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06613660599582813216noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7082154886811513041.post-38975251679816939112011-08-30T15:13:00.000-07:002011-08-30T15:13:36.052-07:00A new project at last!OK then, so a friend of mine suggested I have a play with ESXi and offered me some old unused kit for me to play with.<br />My current set-up is getting a bit old and I'm limited in the fiddling I can do as the missus and kids complain when I break the server again as it dishes out all my media, so I figured why not.<br />So I have myself a barely used Atom 330 ITX board with 4G of ram.<br />I decided I needed some new storage as the 500G disk I have is getting on and full so I'm currently using various USB drives to bolster capacity.<br />My new 2T drive arrived today so that should fit the bill.<br />I'm planning to boot from USB and have all of my various disks as storage.<br />I still have to get a PSU and some sort of box to put it all in do have an old tower so may use that.<br />Once set up the plan is to migrate the existing server to a virtual and then maybe set-up a couple of other virtuals to play with and maybe even set-up the old server with another ESXi set-up.<br />Anyway enough of that for now I will post more when I have any progress.<br />Tata<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7082154886811513041-3897525167981693911?l=blog-what-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06613660599582813216noreply@blogger.com0