Friday, July 22, 2011

Would you like to buy Thinkserver TS200V (0981) - Server - Tower - 1 - Core I5 - 650 - 3.2 Ghz - 2 Gb

Lenovo 098119U

Tested and found hardware well supported under Windows XP, 7, Server 2008r2 as well as Ubuntu Linux and OpenSolaris, but ultimately settled on VMWare ESXi ($30 PCIe x1 Intel NIC required (EXPI9301CT)).The Intel 3250 chipset + Core i5-650 brings some server class features home, but two in particular jumped out: ECC Memory and Intel VT-d (Directed I/O) IOMMU support. ECC at this price is nice, while VT-d allows some crazy hijinks under VMWare ESXi (VMDirectPath) so you can pass PCIe devices to directly to virtual machines. Nexenta gets the PCIe SAS controller for ZFS, while Windows 7 gets my PCI TV Tuner card and Ubuntu for web serving duties. Finally allowing me to virtualize my home server.If ... Lenovo ThinkServer 098119U Entry-level Server - 1 x Core i5 i5-650 Lenovo 098119U 3.20 GHz - Tower 098119U Entry Level Servers Lenovo 098119U Gigabit Ethernet 2 GB Lenovo 098119U installed Lenovo 098119U memory; 500 GB hard drive ... »» Read more...

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