Setting up an HP DL185 G5
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So I got a few servers from the old NTG lag from Scott a while back, and I'm finally getting to get them setup. I'm starting with the DL185 G5 (as drive bays for these are stupidly cheap) and I have a lot of capacity.
I'm still flipping between KVM (with the recent topics here and XCP-ng), but am open to be swayed.
Looking for a few project ideas on what to use this unit for, I'm thinking I want to setup an NVR (likely ZoneMinder) as I'll have 24 TB raw to play with.
Anything else worthwhile setting up in a household?
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Could just use it for HUGE storage.
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@scottalanmiller for what content? Having a massive SMB/NFS share doesn't do me a lot of good without it serving some content up.
And since we don't download anything for offline use, a share of this size doesn't make sense.
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@DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:
@scottalanmiller for what content? Having a massive SMB/NFS share doesn't do me a lot of good without it serving some content up.
And since we don't download anything for offline use, a share of this size doesn't make sense.
Which then begs the question - what are you going to do with it? It's expensive to run for the compute power it provides.
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@Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.
Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)
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@DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:
@Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.
Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)
huh - years from now - the power cost alone makes me thing that's not worth while.
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@DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:
@Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.
Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)
All these things basically go directly to what Scott said - make it a giant storage array.
