I’ve been working on setting up a home virtual server to run “single-purpose” virtual machines. This runs Debian 6 (Squeeze) for the base operating system, and Proxmox for the hypervisor. Here’s what I have for my current setup.
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz
- RAM: 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 800
- OS/VM HDDs: 4x160GB Western Digital Blue SATA drives; configured in software RAID 10
- Data/Backups HDD: 1TB Western Digital Green SATA Drive
- NIC: Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
- Optical Drive: DVD RW
Here are some of the things I use it for
- File shares and backup storage
- Media streaming and transcoding
- Source control server
- Database server