Server UP

[Bantam 1]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yea It's a shitload easier when you have multiple hosts with the same hardware and SAN storage with multiple controllers, iscsi switches, etc. We have nowhere near any of that. Just a few hosts with local storage and free unlicensed esxi (God I wish I had an esxi license.. it would save me a LOT of headaches moving stuff around if I had vcenter).

Atleast this new array has a hot swap this time, yay.

How much is that?

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by Bantam 1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How much is that?

An esxi license? Depends on the version, but either way typically not justifiable for a project like ours. (I think Essentials is around $500 and Essentials Plus over $4k. There are a lot of other things more beneficial to spend money like that on.).

It's possible someone might even have one laying around, if they work for a large corporation that has some they never used... one could hope >_>

[Yamamushi]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's possible someone might even have one laying around, if they work for a large corporation that has some they never used... one could hope >_>

I can probably help with that, I'll see what I can dig up this Sunday...

[Method]

I have a copy of Microsoft Windows Server 2011 SBS Essentials for a Small Business Server, Would this help make life easier?

[Yamamushi]

Originally Posted by Bantam 1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How much is that?

It depends on what features you're looking for and how large of a deployment you intend on doing. It can cost a LOT or just a few hundred dollars depending on what you want to do:

http://www.vmware.com/products/datac...e/pricing.html
http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/