Why you should or shouldn't buy used servers!

[@SimonJohnMartinRowe]

Great.. more great tips.. I'm rebuiding Dell T130 Servers as a starting point. I give them 'pet names' that gives a taste of what state they turned up in. "Dusty" was a fire waiting to happen ! 🤣

[@reinekewf7987]

i have a r630 and mine is not in a perfect environment. its in my basement, but it hangs on a wall mount. i get easy access for cleaning and temperatures are mostly around 18°C and 30°C depending on if it is summer or winter. And humidity is around 70%. clearly not the best conditions but it works for 4 years now and gets cleaned once a year from dust. also i have a much older server that runs in this condition for 17years now. it gets replaced slowly by the r630. i mean 32gb ram and 4 1.2ghz cpus with 2 cores and no hyperthreading getting pretty old. i did its job pretty well, but it's getting really expensive compared to the r630. the R630 uses 80w on idle and 82 with all services i had running on my old system my old system idles on 60W but used with all services 350W. i mean 82W vs 350W with the same services, yeah the R630 makes more sense.

[@SimonJohnMartinRowe]

Without being too cheeky, Bob you have a passing resemblance to actor Alan Arkin in the film "Catch 22" - only joking 🤣

[@rockrecon]

Do you have a video on an on-premise setup for startup tech companies that can eventually connect to the cloud, or hybrid ops?

[@BobPellerin]

Thanks for the comment. We don't have such a video at this time. We may add one as time permits.

[@afsinyilmaz8665]

Marcos have you found that guide, am looking too

[@rockrecon]

@@afsinyilmaz8665 I think I stopped looking into it. It feels like it’s been a while.

[@iamvladw]

CTOBOB = Configure-To-Order Bob

[@Limberth11]

for a VMware home lab, would you say it would make significant difference in power consumption if I run it 24x7 or if I power everything off every night? Thanks

[@BobPellerin]

Dépends on the load during the night, but I would tell you to simply monitor the power usage and decide if it is worth the effort.

[@turgberbgus]

very cool video very nice

[@delbertharry8915]

Can you replace the main mother board with an R742 motherboard. Can one upgrade from an r630 to a r742 by swapping out the mother board ???

[@BobPellerin]

Not sure. I would think not as not everything may align.

[@sunnylm2045]

i'm looking into one of this too, what is the spec and how much?

[@BobPellerin]

You’ll have to look at what is available to you in your country. Used servers prices can be all over the place. As to specs, you can get what you need/want. More cores, faster cores, more raid cache…

[@sunnylm2045]

I end up purchased HP DL360 gen9 with 384GB RAM 8x146SAS, I have installed esxi 8.0 and nested 4 esxi vmhost with a few VMs for my home lab, just curious about the power consumption between old dell and HP as I do have 2xdell R610 and HP dl 360 Gen 7 they all consume power around 120-140w when running idle , where as my HP Gen 9 start up to 320w and then later on idle at around 160-170w. How is the dell R630 and R640 power consumption like?

[@matthijsleenhouts4827]

rack servers needs rails to mount them in the server rack

[@BobPellerin]

Good point.