so hyper v 2012 = hypervisor and is free?

and for the record, i just supported/had aj's back. that is all.

@RojoLoco if used indoors you'd for sure want to use it under a vent hood. we have one that pops up from the counter top that's pretty neat.

I quit jobless when I decided to go into business for myself. Spent 3 or so months with no to very little incoming doll hairs.

Network is a VPLS between sites so yeah, networking side isn't tough. technically it's all "LAN" to the hosts.

yes. the previous owners of this house replaced their gas unit with an electric flat top....stupid. when a few stars line up we will be replacing this unit with gas.

Let me tell you from experience. If you want to be a mediocre IT Generalist, drop out now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

considering we were willing to lose a day of data to our DR site.... this will replicate much more often, so this is already better than what i've been thinking.

i found a decent dell i5 in my pile of computers. gonna whip a ssd, 8-16 gb of ramz, and a cheapo video card in and try it out

see @deathofasellout ... joining a community like this is great. you've successfully got them riled up with your first post. good luck

WTF is starwind?! ha

I'm a Whiskey/Bourbon type of fellow, other than that, i fell @MattSpeller and I could be related.

I only underbought when trying to run all workloads on a single server. The role of the new DR server wasn't always DR. Our other servers are perfectly happy with extra space

Not going the starwind route, doesn't make sense for me as the DR site will in essence be providing me with the same (technically moreish) protection from failure. both site, and vm, or physical host failure on main site. if i wanted to buy 6 more drives, i could starwind it out and have uber ultra super safe mega secure situation.... just dont think they want to spend that right now. maybe a next year project expansion

I love my nest.... the auto-schedule auto home/away situation is nice. not sure if we save money or not.... I like having an app for my thermostat and also to know that if i leave the air on when i leave, it will detect that and shut her down eventually.

Is not doing SW. Does not matter.

we have it on our downstairs unit. 2700 sq.ft house. I think it's a 5or6 ton unit. living room has 20' ceilings, it's in a small "hallway" under the stairs, to the right is a bathroom, left is storage under stairs. keeps downstairs pretty consistent through rooms. It would be nice if there were little room units you could plug into say an outlet that would register that rooms temp/humidity/etc. I think one of the smart thermostat companies do that already.

How would starwind help here? if it's useful, i'm down. i just dont know enough about it to on a whim whip it up in a production environment.

fixing some fools server setup.

yeah, i'm happy with my current potential setup

@hubtechagain went through a weird music/booze/ladies/tattoo phase.