So the other day, I decided to virtualize all of my servers. I installed ESXi server on one of my old DELL 2850 servers left over from 2007-ish with 4 cores, 4GB of ram and 600GB of RAIDed harddrive space. I was able to shut down two real servers and move most of my real (ageing) hardware to the VMware server. I like the ability to spin up a new machine and not have to worry about resources (most virt resources are ‘free’) or compatibility. I spin up a new VM for one chore, then I manage to piggyback some more functions on it because it’s not being used heavily. I’ve got 6 or 7 VMs now running on a 4-core machine and since only a couple of them are used at one time, they get almost all of the resources of the hardware when I need them.

Starting to really like a VM-based infrastructure…

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