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devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
I legitimately am borrowing my T720 from work thank you very much. :colbert:

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devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
On the other hand, if you manage to borrow a modern tower server from work, it'll probably be quieter than your normal desktop. The T720 I have is hilariously quiet for how many fans and hard drives it has.

...until it ramps up when it's 90 degrees in the garage. :unsmigghh:

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
Bored this afternoon at work and I need to get off my rear end and study to take the vcp 5.5 since I already took the class, so I'm getting this set up from our pile of crap for studying. Should be good enough for an initial setup, with 64gb each.

E: 32, not 64. Still good enough.

devmd01 fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 22, 2016

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
And for virtualization, if your work has some older decommissioned servers (and maybe even storage!) lying around, talk to your boss and see if you can use them for lab use "after hours." Better yet, run it in your company's datacenter so they're paying for the electricity. Why spend money if you don't have to? :getin:

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
lol just lol, not everyone works in a megacorp, I can throw a pen across the room and hit our network person. I can tear down and rebuild our production vmware cluster all day long; i'm not going to break anything on the network by running a separate vmware cluster on a completely different network segment, calm the gently caress down.

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