DL 380 Virtualization Server
Repurposing used enterprise equipment for virtualization
Similar to the repurposed NAS, I decided to create a server I could use for virtualization. I found an HP ProLiant on Ebay with the following specs:
2x E5-2680v4 2.4GHz
96Gb EEC RAM
As this is essentially what these servers are designed for only slight modifications were needed for the tasks I had in mind.
I also added a Mellanox CX3 card to this machine so that I could have 10G networking between my NAS and this machine. As a hypervisor I decided to use proxmox, mostly because it has a price tag you can’t pass up (0$).
Setting up a virtual machine is as easy as clicking through a couple menus and setting up the hardware how you see fit. In the following case I set up a single socket 16 core CPU, 64GB of memory, and an image for Ubuntu server.
Once the VM boots up, setting up Ubuntu is as the same as installing it on a bare metal machine.
From here we can do anything we like!
