ultimate99 Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I have an HP ProLiant micoserver that I bought a year ago for the intention of backups and sql databases (NAS). I haven't done much with it for a long time expect installed Windows Server 2012 R2 with Essentials. It automatically backs up the server's system disk and that's it. Any ideas how can I really utilize this hardware? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 You're the best one to tell us... What tasks do you want to do with it? DNS/DHCP? File Sharing? Torrent box [For Linux distros, naturally]? Give us something to work with here. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimate99 Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 You're the best one to tell us... What tasks do you want to do with it? DNS/DHCP? File Sharing? Torrent box [For Linux distros, naturally]? Give us something to work with here. :p Mainly backups of data on 2 laptops, daily or weekly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikh Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 If you plan on getting rid of it I'll take it from you. But as far as using it I would put esxi on it and have fun Raa and speed3okie 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimate99 Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 Any takers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Any takers? I have one (N54L) and it's awesome: i have Plex on a VM (it's good, just 1080p stuff on that CPU is a no no), backups in a drivepool set and lots of lab fun, all in a ESXi host. with a second one i could use it for offloading the backups or toying with clusters...hummm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted December 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted December 12, 2014 Yeah I will take it!! Run ESX on there. Get some VM's going. Maybe start some honeypots as a project. Get a Phone system running. Elastix or Asterix on Linux etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted December 12, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 12, 2014 you can install Plex on it. http://www.plex.tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted December 12, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 12, 2014 I would love to take it off you for a small price lol but your in canada On mine i played with VM's, Web serbver, proxy, squid, dns, plex, file shares, backups have some fun with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcruicks Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Mine does Plex, backups, and a minecraft and teamspeak server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted December 17, 2014 MVC Share Posted December 17, 2014 What model do you have? As mentioned already they make great esxi boxes.. Then you can run whatever you want on it in a VM, add some ram - more interfaces and you can do about anything you want with it. But sounds like its doing what you bought it for - so why do you need ask what to do with it. If you actually wanted to do something with it, you would already be doing it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 If the purpose of the purchase was to backup 2 laptops, and it's doing that - why are you looking to do more? It's doing exactly what it was purchased for. If you want to dick around with VMware, buy another one and leave the backups working as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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