Recommendations for a home (vm) server

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
good place to get one? :)

Thanks,
~Stephen

On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross <david.sh at wcross.info> wrote:
> HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity to spare.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> On 21/06/2012, at 9:03 PM, Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen at rees-carter.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine
>> which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04
>> Virtualbox headless or ESXi.
>> But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two
>> Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a bit out of
>> the loop for what's good/bad on the market in terms of desktops and
>> home servers.
>>
>> So I was hoping that you guys could help me out...
>>
>> Since it's going to be a VM host, I'm after something with decent
>> specs, lots of RAM, and multiple large disks.
>> Also no wacky hardware that Ubuntu doesn't support. My budget is max $1,000.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a brand/model or at least point me in the right direction?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> ~Stephen
>>
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