bobdole369

I'm currently folding for one of my favorite forums - [H]ardocp. After the December challenge (race to xmas) via WCG in which I promised to fold for the [H]orde, I no longer have an obligation. We are trying to reach top ten in that race. I've got 3 machines. Would Hak.5 like to fold for the [H]orde? I'm always willing to help, or is there more help needed for Hak.5?

I'll play My name is dole, a.k.a bobdole369 Favourite games: Mario Kart, Gran Turismo 4, sim city 4, various flight sims. Occasional HL2 or similar. Favourite OS: CP/M? Commodore Basic? Win7 works fairly well, CentOS is the most productive one I'm using, Server 2003/2008 for the office, and WinXP as clients. Favourite console: Wii Nationality: Mostly polish, White American Accent: Been told midwest american, but my current GF (native floridian) doesn't hear it. Sex: Male Age: 30 Race: Night Elf Height: 5'9" Status: Engaged Build: 120kg Favourite band: Metal - thrash, hardcore, death, anything really fuggin hard Favourite book: The Stand or "Prometheus Rising" Favourite author: King Favourite movie: Natural Born Killers Favourite director: Spielberg of all people. Favourite TV Show: Currently Lost Favourite actor: I'm not a fag Favourite actress: Zooey Favourite Pinup: Slave Leia Favourite Comedian: Carlin Other hobbies: Learning, Photography, Coffee and Tea, Reading, Cooking, hardware hacks, electronics, Amateur Radio Car: PT Cruiser Occupation: IT admin/Technical Operations (geek to send in when the shit hits the fan)

Arduino is the ossim.

So is there anything "wrong" with using ESXi for 2 or 4 virtualized desktops? It does seem to get the job done. From what I understand doing this is totally free besides the already owned WInXP licenses running on the machine. Is there any other bare metal software that might do this better? I decided to try ESXi because I simply didn't have the horsepower or cash reserves to do a dedicated terminal server. And I'm not looking for application stuff, but just intranet browsing and pdf reading, ocasional data entry into a client side of a database.

Yeaaaah, sort of the whole reason I'm mucking about here is the lack of funds to dedicate servers. I'm really just looking to combine things into less space and heat. As for the remote desktop thing - well there is no money for a dedicated terminal services server - so I'm left to figure out how to minimize cost.

OMG the poor fish!

I kinda figured as much. I'm essentially brand new to the virtualization world and I'm trying to figure out how I could best utilize ESXi in my enterprise. As it is now - actual physical machines: domain controller - AMD opteron 180 - 3x 750GB drives (raid 5) - functions as DC/secondary backup/DNS/WINS/file server for financials/quickbooks File Server - P4 3.2ghz - 4GB DDR-400 - 5x 320GB drives (raid 5) - + (2 x 37GB raptors in raid0) - serves files, couple SQL databases - primary backup to external drive Application Server - C2D 2.4ghz - 4GB DDR2-667 - 5x 74GB raptor drives (raid 5) + (2 x 37GB raptors in raid0) - more SQL databases, firebird DB, custom DB program, .NET app, DNS/WINS former RA server - used to run RRAS and a couple front ends of the .NET apps and the custom DB program. Its basically deprecated and only hosts the AV application (symantec AV) print server - deprecated win2k3 server only hosting printer shares. Its really just taking up space. phone server - Using a USB device, connects to 4 skype accounts and provides 4 phone lines. My initial thought is to concatenate the print/phone/RA server with the DC on ESXi with 2 actual win2k3 servers. That brings me from 4 physical to 1 physical with 4 virtual ones. But thinking some more, I could easily have the phone server and the print server and the AV app on one virtual, leaving the DC to its own virtual machine. Thoughts?

I've built my first ESXi box, and I have 2 winxpsp3 desktops running. I'm thinking of perhaps using these as a remote desktop server of sorts. I could serve a couple of these desktops to remote users. Some Cisco-fu would allow me to skip the desktop that is in use and connect to the next available one. But does anyone have real experience with what is needed? The PC I did this on is a c2d 1.8ghz - 2GB RAM. The desktops have 256MB and 12GB disks. THe HD is a dedicated raptor (original) 10k 74GB drive. I know that isn't enough RAM or CPU, but how about the disk? With 1 and the rare occasion 2 users logged in, will that be enough? Also what kind of license is ESXi? Is this even permitted by vmware?

I got the same thing. I got dumped to a command prompt. startx (enter) and shortly I had a menu with lots of fun looking stuff. Any cheatsheet to what everything does? I found lots of fun doing DNS and network probes.