How to Create an Enterprise Home Lab - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Rory
Haa you're like me... Terrible jk.
I qualified on Apple systems, always used windows, and serve on Linux, did a bit of Citrix too...
I don't mix storage and other services as I'm too old school and wrote /was part of the whole RFC gambit.
I think explaining. VM is a bit hard to do as there is a gap in the curve. And there was other things going on before the transition.
Servers had multi CPUs for....
Windows server could not natively use multi CPU or multi core, not even data center....
CPU ids were use to.... Where the software locked to a CPU to make instances. (What is referred to now as)
As processors grew cores, most systems ran single software packages and were limited to interrupt ques, so multi taking wasn't great and as a result hardware was often unused, quiet often a CPU would be maxed at 13%.
Stacking on the hardware allowed for multiple use of the hardware, reduce hardware, real estate, cooling and most costs. So things took off.
If we look back, 4 CPUs were enterprise and you could have data center and pay for the MS install and config so you could run 4 tasks.
We're now in 2008,
Multi cores and multi tasking came about and seemed to be a good idea, it filtered to the desk top and MS never had hold of this tech any longer so played ball. (Dragging it's feet)
Those four CPUs turned into two CPUs with two cores, then hyper threading (threads) so you got the same performance and never lost space. But it wasn't till software caught up.
More cores came and as a result those software apps (not called apps at the time) could be installed on the same hardware, had the same cores and processors, but used 90% of the hardware which was pretty costly at the the time, and was mostly unused... Hence big big data centres.
Today, maybe a mircoserver would have the power and performance of a entire. 24u rack. So places have gotten smaller, or have considerably more density to compute and storage than they ever have.
And this will make you think....
If mvme can do quad layers. Why are CPUs just single layer? It's not heat thats a issue.
And yes I run enterprise and data center hardware. May as well use the right stuff for the job. But I don't knock consumer hardware but they're 2 decades behind the loop.
So lack a massive amount of features that has been in enterprise for decades.
I can't believe they still limit SATA to 6gb/s and why there not using 20gbps. Or why 10gb has taken so long to pull through. Surely the isps can't be holding back that transition?
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Haa you're like me... Terrible jk.
I qualified on Apple systems, always used windows, and serve on Linux, did a bit of Citrix too...
I don't mix storage and other services as I'm too old school and wrote /was part of the whole RFC gambit.
I think explaining. VM is a bit hard to do as there is a gap in the curve. And there was other things going on before the transition.
Servers had multi CPUs for....
Windows server could not natively use multi CPU or multi core, not even data center....
CPU ids were use to.... Where the software locked to a CPU to make instances. (What is referred to now as)
As processors grew cores, most systems ran single software packages and were limited to interrupt ques, so multi taking wasn't great and as a result hardware was often unused, quiet often a CPU would be maxed at 13%.
Stacking on the hardware allowed for multiple use of the hardware, reduce hardware, real estate, cooling and most costs. So things took off.
If we look back, 4 CPUs were enterprise and you could have data center and pay for the MS install and config so you could run 4 tasks.
We're now in 2008,
Multi cores and multi tasking came about and seemed to be a good idea, it filtered to the desk top and MS never had hold of this tech any longer so played ball. (Dragging it's feet)
Those four CPUs turned into two CPUs with two cores, then hyper threading (threads) so you got the same performance and never lost space. But it wasn't till software caught up.
More cores came and as a result those software apps (not called apps at the time) could be installed on the same hardware, had the same cores and processors, but used 90% of the hardware which was pretty costly at the the time, and was mostly unused... Hence big big data centres.
Today, maybe a mircoserver would have the power and performance of a entire. 24u rack. So places have gotten smaller, or have considerably more density to compute and storage than they ever have.
And this will make you think....
If mvme can do quad layers. Why are CPUs just single layer? It's not heat thats a issue.
And yes I run enterprise and data center hardware. May as well use the right stuff for the job. But I don't knock consumer hardware but they're 2 decades behind the loop.
So lack a massive amount of features that has been in enterprise for decades.
I can't believe they still limit SATA to 6gb/s and why there not using 20gbps. Or why 10gb has taken so long to pull through. Surely the isps can't be holding back that transition?
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xx
Chris, I am very interested in setting up a mock Business using a Linux server. I have setup FreeNas in the past but I never was able to get it to do what I needed it to. This was not necessarily the fault of the server, just the software I wanted loaded and the lack of knowing what I should see from admin to user. As you know, most businesses run Databases on their servers. I setup a LibreOffice Base DB to use as the front end and MariaDB as the back. I could not get the two to work together although I am still trying. There are many aspect to this server but if you can focus on Database setup and use in the home lab this will certainly help.
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Chris, I am very interested in setting up a mock Business using a Linux server. I have setup FreeNas in the past but I never was able to get it to do what I needed it to. This was not necessarily the fault of the server, just the software I wanted loaded and the lack of knowing what I should see from admin to user. As you know, most businesses run Databases on their servers. I setup a LibreOffice Base DB to use as the front end and MariaDB as the back. I could not get the two to work together although I am still trying. There are many aspect to this server but if you can focus on Database setup and use in the home lab this will certainly help.
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Ted
I might as well been listening to 100 people speaking Chinese in an Italian restaurant lol. This video makes one thing very clear, you know your sh-t, Titus! - Your going to make me learn, aren't ya! lol. Actually, I have been interested in setting up a game server for the guys. One of my friends is in IT and he had 7dtd on a windows server and he had issues with it. I'll turn him on to your linux server vids. Maybe he can learn something. Thanks as always!
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I might as well been listening to 100 people speaking Chinese in an Italian restaurant lol. This video makes one thing very clear, you know your sh-t, Titus! - Your going to make me learn, aren't ya! lol. Actually, I have been interested in setting up a game server for the guys. One of my friends is in IT and he had 7dtd on a windows server and he had issues with it. I'll turn him on to your linux server vids. Maybe he can learn something. Thanks as always!
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alphabanks
In the Enterprise Vmware is king after that I would say Hyper-V. I know some companies have migrated to Hyper-V simply because of there enterprise agreement with Microsoft. Basically, if you are licensed for Windows Server Datacenter Edition you have unlimited virtualization rights. Also, ESXI is free I've been running it in my home lab now for years.
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In the Enterprise Vmware is king after that I would say Hyper-V. I know some companies have migrated to Hyper-V simply because of there enterprise agreement with Microsoft. Basically, if you are licensed for Windows Server Datacenter Edition you have unlimited virtualization rights. Also, ESXI is free I've been running it in my home lab now for years.
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itech
I selected FreeNAS because of the filesystem, specially because of the feature against data corrosion. To have it a little bit more professional, I use a HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 for it. Really nice setup, although it was a pain in the ass to Update the Managment System on the server.
Nice Video, by the way.
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I selected FreeNAS because of the filesystem, specially because of the feature against data corrosion. To have it a little bit more professional, I use a HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 for it. Really nice setup, although it was a pain in the ass to Update the Managment System on the server.
Nice Video, by the way.
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Herbie
Hi Chris,
what would be the cases when you can not go linux all the way, or should I say, when you would have to use windows software? Would that be the case with active directory? Pardon me if you already have a video on this topic that I could not find, which one is it?
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Hi Chris,
what would be the cases when you can not go linux all the way, or should I say, when you would have to use windows software? Would that be the case with active directory? Pardon me if you already have a video on this topic that I could not find, which one is it?
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trythat
Is there a reason why you didn't touch on containers? I find for lower hardware, containers are better, plus for a media centre, there are containers for all the main things e.g Sabnzbd, Sonaar, Jellyfin, Plex various Torrent containers including openvpn additions.
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Is there a reason why you didn't touch on containers? I find for lower hardware, containers are better, plus for a media centre, there are containers for all the main things e.g Sabnzbd, Sonaar, Jellyfin, Plex various Torrent containers including openvpn additions.
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Hungry
I once tried to set up an Enterprise Lab, but whenever I used too much power, Geordi claimed I was taking power away from the warp engines, and Worf complained I was taking power away from the phasers, and Riker complained I was taking power away from the shields...
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I once tried to set up an Enterprise Lab, but whenever I used too much power, Geordi claimed I was taking power away from the warp engines, and Worf complained I was taking power away from the phasers, and Riker complained I was taking power away from the shields...
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Jaylincry
I never understood virtualization but what is the use if you dont have a powerful bare metal to run it on ... i used to think virtualization was a way to create vms with unlimited power performance bo matter the spec of the bare metal lol
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I never understood virtualization but what is the use if you dont have a powerful bare metal to run it on ... i used to think virtualization was a way to create vms with unlimited power performance bo matter the spec of the bare metal lol
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Juan
IIs there a way to run virtualization on freenas without having UG in the vtx support of the procesor? The only thing I want to do on freenas is to get the redundant pihole server, because I use kvm to virtualiza on my desktop.
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IIs there a way to run virtualization on freenas without having UG in the vtx support of the procesor? The only thing I want to do on freenas is to get the redundant pihole server, because I use kvm to virtualiza on my desktop.
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