Fellas
Wont to fair to fill the template for this...
Need a second headless rig to run my Cisco stuff and act as a low activity NAS.
NAS BUILD:
Purpose: to run 24x7, serve as vNAS to store family media and backups, NFS/Samba, VM Datastore and to host a few low cpu/high ram VMs.
VMs: NAS OS, WIN 2012, Ubuntu LTS, pfSense/SophosUTM and Cisco vWLC
Intel G3240 Pentium Dual Core LGA1150 4th Generation Processor -3.8K
Gigabyte B85M-D3H mobo, has 4 sata3, 2 sata2, 32gb ddr3 ram support -6K'ish
Western Digital Red WD10EFRX 1TB Internal Hard Drive - 5K
Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini-ITX Computer Case -4.5K
Decent 350W power supply -3K
16GB USB pendrive for ESXi boot -300rs
Already have about 16gb ram sticks spare that can be used.
On day 1, the system will run out of a shoe box. Following items to be purchased in future:
2x4TB WED Red HDDs (honestly 2TB is enough for media storage for me. I still file pix and vids on DVD)
1xCase
1x120GB SSD
1xDual gig Intel LAN card for etherchannel
1xFront mounted 16x4 LCD for sysinfo
Is there some way I can add an IPMI on the cheap? (Guess not)
Any comments? It's a budget machine build to support my main desktop as a 24x7 available no-messing-once-live box.
Wont to fair to fill the template for this...
Need a second headless rig to run my Cisco stuff and act as a low activity NAS.
NAS BUILD:
Purpose: to run 24x7, serve as vNAS to store family media and backups, NFS/Samba, VM Datastore and to host a few low cpu/high ram VMs.
VMs: NAS OS, WIN 2012, Ubuntu LTS, pfSense/SophosUTM and Cisco vWLC
Intel G3240 Pentium Dual Core LGA1150 4th Generation Processor -3.8K
Gigabyte B85M-D3H mobo, has 4 sata3, 2 sata2, 32gb ddr3 ram support -6K'ish
Western Digital Red WD10EFRX 1TB Internal Hard Drive - 5K
Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini-ITX Computer Case -4.5K
Decent 350W power supply -3K
16GB USB pendrive for ESXi boot -300rs
Already have about 16gb ram sticks spare that can be used.
On day 1, the system will run out of a shoe box. Following items to be purchased in future:
2x4TB WED Red HDDs (honestly 2TB is enough for media storage for me. I still file pix and vids on DVD)
1xCase
1x120GB SSD
1xDual gig Intel LAN card for etherchannel
1xFront mounted 16x4 LCD for sysinfo
Is there some way I can add an IPMI on the cheap? (Guess not)
Any comments? It's a budget machine build to support my main desktop as a 24x7 available no-messing-once-live box.
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