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Hi all,
I have recently acquired an older Dell Poweredge R300 1U server machine, and am looking to set it up as a DIY home server. The intention at the moment is that it will hold all of my media on a RAID1 pair of WD Red drives, as well as hosting Plex and anything else I can dream up/have time to learn!
My question is; which Hypervisor should I steer toward? I am aware I could just run an OS directly, but feel this is an opportunity to learn stuff, while getting a sweet server setup as well. As a long lived Linux user (mostly Arch), I have looked into the Xen system, but have also been recommended ESXi as Dell provide customised images for it. I intend to run the OS from a USB stick plugged into the internal USB port. Can someone please shed some light on this, and possibly provide some guidance?
Thanks in advance!
I have recently acquired an older Dell Poweredge R300 1U server machine, and am looking to set it up as a DIY home server. The intention at the moment is that it will hold all of my media on a RAID1 pair of WD Red drives, as well as hosting Plex and anything else I can dream up/have time to learn!
My question is; which Hypervisor should I steer toward? I am aware I could just run an OS directly, but feel this is an opportunity to learn stuff, while getting a sweet server setup as well. As a long lived Linux user (mostly Arch), I have looked into the Xen system, but have also been recommended ESXi as Dell provide customised images for it. I intend to run the OS from a USB stick plugged into the internal USB port. Can someone please shed some light on this, and possibly provide some guidance?
Thanks in advance!