Ugly-051
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- Mar 4, 2017
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After reading through the recommended hardware guide I was trying to put together a new build for my Hyper-V lab. I came up with a couple of builds but then deicide to have a look at one of the HPE Gen8 servers that a few people I know have recommended before.
I’m going to be using FreeNAS to provide SMB3 storage to SCVMM and the Hyper-V hosts, which currently run on two Dell R410 servers.
I’m specifically looking at the HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T server with 4GB RAM at less than £200. As previously I had exceeded this amount when trying to put my own together.
I’ve also seen a couple of posts on here where people have ran these with FreeNAS and had no issues so think I’ll give this one a go for my first build.
Things I’m going to do:
I’m going to be using FreeNAS to provide SMB3 storage to SCVMM and the Hyper-V hosts, which currently run on two Dell R410 servers.
I’m specifically looking at the HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T server with 4GB RAM at less than £200. As previously I had exceeded this amount when trying to put my own together.
I’ve also seen a couple of posts on here where people have ran these with FreeNAS and had no issues so think I’ll give this one a go for my first build.
Things I’m going to do:
- Add-in another 4GB of ECC RAM.
- Add-in approx 2-4 TB of SAS disks.