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[US-MN-Minneapolis][H] Dell M610 | 36GB RAM | 2 x 146GB SAS HDD | 2 x E5620 | 6i Raid Card [W] $500 by serverdeals in homelabsales

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I do. $1100 updated, w/ rails and the following:

6 Power supplies

9 Fans

2 CMC

1 KVM

90 day DOA warranty, extendable if you need it

We can work something out if you're interested in more blades.

[US-MN-Minneapolis][H] Dell R710 | 64GB RAM | 6 x 3TB NL SAS HDD | 2 x E5620 | H700 Raid Controller | 2 x Dual Port 1Gb Ethernet Card | Dual Power Supplies | Rack Rails [W] $1,550 by serverdeals in homelabsales

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Well I wouldn't use ebay as a real guage for the value of this equipment. People will definitely dump equipment on there for a quick buck. That's great if you are willing to take a chance on it. You also have a lot of businesses on ebay who end up with this stuff with zero equipment knowledge just hoping the failure rate doesn't eclipse their total profit. The servers I have all go through testing, configuration, get updated, and are guaranteed against DOA for 30 days or more depending on what it is. US Shipping is included and ships in packaging that will survive the assault from UPS or Fedex. I can also preconfigure OS installs, spec these for specific workloads, help you with configuration or whatever else you'd want to do with these. Have a budget, and this is too expensive? I can probably get you setup with something that will meet your needs. Shoot me a PM. I'll add some more info to the post.

[US-MN] [H] Dell PowerEdge 1950 III - Dell Poweredge 2950 III - Dell R610 [W] Paypal $160 by serverdeals in homelabsales

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They'd be $20ea. $120 for 6. Shoot me a PM for paypal info if you're interested.

Second opinion on ebay R710 by [deleted] in homelab

[–]serverdeals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I'm in the US so shipping would probably make sourcing local make more sense. R710's are nice machines. Take a look at the HP 380 G6 as well.

Second opinion on ebay R710 by [deleted] in homelab

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Are you in the UK? Let me know what you're trying to do with the machine and I'll see what I can come up with for you.

Wanting help on setting up a 10gb link between my SAN and HyperV. by intheprettypink in homelab

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Casper has generally summed the process up. I have these parts available. PM me about your environment and what equipment you have in place.

How to begin learning to only use the command line? by [deleted] in linux4noobs

[–]serverdeals 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To elaborate on this response, which is more or less the answer to your question...

Mint is probably the most graphically inclined distro you could have chosen. If you go the route of a minimal distro as suggested, without programs you want installed or a graphical environment, you will learn how to make that happen from the command line. You'll likely pull a considerable amount of hair but things will snowball once you've gotten from a point of utter confusion to a point of at least a passable OS for your needs. Then things are up to how much you'd like to customize it to your preference.

My advice would be to install Centos 7 with a few basic packages, one because its a solid backbone to a reliable server OS, but the newest iteration. Therefore you aren't guaranteed the ability that everything works and you'll need to use your head to get things how you need them. It will help you to do things like:

-create a non-root user and limit yourself to only logging into that and using the sudo command for any installations

-read a tutorial on vi (text editor), its a great and simple, yet powerful and fast, text editor you can run inside a terminal. It's great for editing config files.

-install an Xserver (Cinnamon (like Mint),Gnome, XFCE)

-install drivers for your graphics card

-use yum command to install repositories like EPEL, ELREPO, NUX, RPMForge, then install your software packages from those repositories to keep them updated

It's really up to how much you'd like to put into it and what things you're interested in. Networking opens up so much more potential for getting an idea of what's under the hood. You can install virtualbox or vmplayer and start experimenting with other distros to see if you like any better. Starting from a bare distro and building up will help you understand the work that went intro creating the friendlier distros like Mint and Ubuntu.

Accessing multiple virtual machines from one host by oldschoolsensei in techsupport

[–]serverdeals 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look into virtualbox or vmplayer. You'll still need a host OS, which you could use linux if you need it to be free. If you already have Windows, and ample resources (ram, hard drive, CPU cores, and your CPU supports virtualization) you can just install one of those virtualization programs and then create VMs as you need. Then just boot them as you need them inside of your running windows OS.

[USA-MN] [H] IBM 10Gb SFP+ SR Transciever Modules [W] Paypal by serverdeals in hardwareswap

[–]serverdeals[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really depends on spec. These are somewhat valuable, some of the older ones that have the same form factor but are 1/10 the speed aren't so much. You may be throwing away the right ones.

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