So its been a while since I posted anything but…..yeah whatever, you get that sometimes. I thought I would write a bit about my home lab setup just in case anyone finds it useful.
My lab at home consists of 1 highish end pc that I built up to use as a server, 1 desktop that I use mostly for gaming, 3 laptops of varying configuration (xp to win 7), a Buffalo terastation, a TP Link wireless access point, a Cisco 877 router and an HP UPS.
My high end server / desktop is running an AMD x6 1055 processor with 8 gigs of RAM and 2 x 500 gig drives and 1 x 1 TB drive. Its got Windows server 2008 R2 running on it and acts mainly as my Hyper V host for my virtual servers. Virtualised I have SBS 2008, another instance of XP, Windows 7 and 4 Windows 2003 servers of varying flavour mostly used for testing.
The SBS box is my main box and takes up 5 of the 8 gigs of RAM. It has all of my files / movies / music on it and I have my own mail domain that Exchange takes care of. My Iphone syncs with it and the wifes HTC Touch Pro does as well. The actual SBS is made up of a couple of VHD’s as if I migrate I can just disconnect the VHD and then reconnect it to the new server I build, much easier then having to export the whole thing or copying gigs of data across.
I also terminate my PPTP VPN on a virtual machine (1 of the Win2k3 boxes with RRAS installed) as this way if I want to bounce the SBS box when Im not home I can still watch it go down and back up from within Hyper V. If I terminated it on the SBS box itself (which you can do) I would get kicked out everytime I restarted it which is a pain.
Thats it for now….more about the Terastation and my Cisco setup later.
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