5 Feb
2010
5 Feb
'10
5:23 p.m.
I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4 and then run CentOS as a vm? This would give me the options to roll out other VM's if I want over the life of the server (which I likely won't need) but the convenience of having them might be there.
<snip> In fact, that's what I'm considering in a year or two, when I need a new h/d at home. I'd like to be able to test a new release without worrying, and I probably want something like XP or whatever (for the sole purpose of playing games more recent than, say, Doom (tm) or Heretic(tm) <g>)
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