Posts by thebigyin

OK, so you guys are for hardware RAID as opposed to a Server 2012 storage pool? So if I get a RAID card for example, is there I need to know if I wish to expand the Storage volume in the array?

Hmmm, Well what I want to do is this, I Need 4 VM's to be hosted either in Hyper-V or Esxi. VM's 1. Server 2K8R2/2K12 for DC/AD,DNS, DHCP, Mapping, File Services, Printing etc blah blah 2. WHS 2011 for Media handling plus sickbeard,...

Hey Guys, Just wondered if anyone had a version of Server 2012 running at home now? I'm gonna get this sooner than later along with a new server (thinking a HP G7 Tower), not sure when exactly. I wanted to know how it was performing...

Depends on a few things really... What do you want your server to do exactly. Do you have a need for another operating system? Would you benefit from having this option? I'm assuming your new build is fairly spec'd to handle esxi and...

Quote:Originally Posted by LB11 Turn off WDS and use this instead if you want to stay in windows. http://www.vercot.com/~serva/ Its a WDS replacement server that also uses pxelinux as the PXE loader. So you can customize the PXE...

Quote:Originally Posted by subassy I have been unsuccessfully try to have enough patients to set up PXE boot for...well lets just say multiple years and leave it at that...Anyway I managed to accumulate a number of guides and links....

Quote:Originally Posted by tompsonn Nope. Don't need managed switches for a separate subnet, just use any old separate switch and give nodes a different addressing scheme (I used 172.16.0.0/24 as opposed to 192.168.168.0/24 which is...

Quote:Originally Posted by tompsonn Yeah. You can run WDS in mixed-mode or some crap, but too much hassle. Anyway. To set mine up, I run a Ubuntu server VM inside a Hyper-V box. It's on a separate subnet with its own DHCP server...

Quote:Originally Posted by tompsonn WDS is crap for this. You won't be able to boot diagnostic tools. I have two PXE environments - one is WDS for Windows installs and another (yes I know you wanted to stay away) is a Ubuntu VM on a...

Hi guys, I've been doing some home repairs for a long time now. Looking at friends machines, laptop blah blah. Anyway, I've got a whole bunch of disks now that I use for diagnostics and things and was wondering how would I get them on...