After some downgrades and the natural aging of computer parts the Beast is no longer the Beast it once was. It’s time for a complete rebuild, I have some of the parts needed but a lot is still left to be purchased. I will update this with more in depth specs in the near future but for now this is the quick run down. Asus AM2+ Mobo AMD Phenom X4 AM2+ 16GB DDR2 Highpoint Raid Controller PCI-E 6 1TB WD Black Hard Drives in Raid 50 Intel Gb NIC
Once the new server is built I plan to revisit virtualization with some new contenders added to the list. Here is the current bare metal line up VMWare ESX Microsoft Hyper-V Citrix XEN RedHat KVM Windows VM VMWare Workstation & Server Oracle / Sun Virtual Box Parallels Workstation Linux VM VMWare Workstation & Server Oracle / Sun Virtual Box Parallels Workstation This will all run on the new server so it will be the same hardware each time around. I might do this before I put in the Raid 50 to make my life a lot more simple when installing