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New hardware will utilize most of my old gaming rig. New hardware will utilize most of my old gaming rig.
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Motherboard: MSI Neo-FIS2R K8T800 Motherboard: MSI Neo-FIS2R K8T800
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RAM: 2 GB RAM: 2 GB
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 +2x 160-320 GB SATA HDDs; For use as system disks in a RAID 1 array
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 +Fan controller for 3.5" drive bay to replace current 5.25" fan controller
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 +Drive bay, 4 in 3 (four 3.5" internal bays in three 5.25" external slots, maybe the [http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.aspx?sku=306518 Cooler Master 4 in 3 module] at komplett.se)
==Software== ==Software==

Revision as of 21:46, 29 May 2007

Contents

Plans for otaking 2.0

Hardware

New hardware will utilize most of my old gaming rig.

Pre-existing hardware

Motherboard: MSI Neo-FIS2R K8T800

CPU: AMD Athlon64 3000+ (2.0 GHz)

RAM: 2 GB

Planned purchases

2x 160-320 GB SATA HDDs; For use as system disks in a RAID 1 array

Fan controller for 3.5" drive bay to replace current 5.25" fan controller

Drive bay, 4 in 3 (four 3.5" internal bays in three 5.25" external slots, maybe the Cooler Master 4 in 3 module at komplett.se)

Software

Host OS: CentOS 5 (based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

VMware Server for Linux


Concept

Minimal host OS running multiple guest OSes with VMware Server.


Virtual Machines

Description Guest OS Service(s) Resources Main storage Comment
VM 1 Firewall/

port forward

FreeBSD (?) ~64-192 MB RAM Configuration saved within VMfs
VM 2 DB server FreeBSD MySQL 5.x ~192-256 MB RAM DB saved within VMfs Current database size ~100 MB
VM 3 NAS FreeBSD FreeNAS(?) ~128 MB RAM(?) Files saved within VMfs(?)
VM 4 HTTP server FreeBSD Apache 2.x ~256 MB RAM Files accessed via NAS(?)
VM 5 Mail server FreeBSD Courier-IMAP and Postfix

with SpamAssassin

~128-256 MB RAM Mailboxes accessed via NAS or local(?)
VM 6 FTP server FreeBSD PureFTPd(?) ~128-256 MB RAM Files accessed via NAS(?)
Summary ~896-1344 MB RAM

/ 2048 MB

More services

Some form of user database connection with mail, FTP and NAS. Candidates: LDAP?