Can anyone quickly compare home server OS to full server OS?

[chesser]

I'm thinking about coming away from Ubuntu server in favor of a home server powered by windows.
I'm guessing WHS 2012 r2 is the latest and greatest? Would like some info on setting certain things up - very similar to your setup chesser.

Got around 12TB to be used, does Windows support ZFS, not in my previous experiences it doesn't.

No worries mate any info you need let me know, not sure about ZFS and 2012 R2 we use Oracle systems for ZFS at work so whether they integrate I'm really not sure?

[chesser]

I think the bottom line is if you are confident and know Windows Server and have access go with Server 2012 R2, however the interface of Home Server makes management and config very easy.

[Over Carl]

If drive extender was that great, then why isn't it used for commercial servers?

I could be talking out of my arse as I haven't tried it but I've tried numerous RAID offerings and decided software RAID/fakeRAID is shite that's not worth using, and this seems to be a solution worse than even normal software RAID.

[chesser]

If drive extender was that great, then why isn't it used for commercial servers?

I could be talking out of my arse as I haven't tried it but I've tried numerous RAID offerings and decided software RAID/fakeRAID is shite that's not worth using, and this seems to be a solution worse than even normal software RAID.

For me hardware raid wins everytime but that can be pricey, but IMHO stablebit does the job nicely in WHS 2011 and actually recovers in a failure, I reinstalled my WHS and stablebit just recognised the signatures on the disks and brought everything back online, I guess nothing is perfect unless you throw money at it. WHS is easy that's why I use it.

[DejaVu]

Stepping completely into the unknown, I've gone with Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter - got to learn somewhere!
I've used and administer a basic Small Business Server 2011 Standard eidition, so hope it's not too much more complicated than that...!?

Not sure I understand the features of Essentials, but I'm guessing (hoping) probably overkill for a home media server?

[beerman]

Datacenter seems a tad overkill for what you want it for. You can just add the essentials role to it though. It'll give you the remote options you would get with standard essentials.

[Over Carl]

The cool thing about datacentre is that you are licensed for unlimited number of vms.

[Mr.James]

The cool thing about datacentre is that you are licensed for unlimited number of vms.

I doubt his version is licensed, last time I checked it was £3,500 per processor! Lol

I'm running DC on a 16 core box at work. 40 VMs so far and the box runs at about 20% load. I think it'll easily take 100 VMs. Well worth the £6.5k it cost.

Edit: £3.5k x 2 is £7k... Not £6.5k lol

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[DejaVu]

I doubt his version is licensed

I'm going to 'buy' the 100% legit licence for my 100% legit server, for all the 100% legit media I downloaded 100% legit.

[Mr.James]

I'm going to 'buy' the 100% legit licence for my 100% legit server, for all the 100% legit media I downloaded 100% legit.

Seems legit ;-)


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[DejaVu]

Seems legit ;-)

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Just activated it. So MUST be legit.

[Mr.James]

Stepping completely into the unknown, I've gone with Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter - got to learn somewhere!
I've used and administer a basic Small Business Server 2011 Standard eidition, so hope it's not too much more complicated than that...!?

Not sure I understand the features of Essentials, but I'm guessing (hoping) probably overkill for a home media server?

DC prob isn't the best solution for a home server. The home server editions I've seen come with stuff like client backup which just doesn't exist in DC as they expect you to have an enterprise solution in place such as DPM.

Plus DC is no different from enterprise functionally iirc. The only difference is the licensing. DC you have to pay per processor and are licensed for unlimited VMs. Enterprise is licenced per box but only gets you 4 VMs.


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[DejaVu]

I have no idea what you just said, but it sounded good!
I looked, but didn't seem to find a decent Home Server version of R2 anywhere.

Looks almost like the Home Server portion of Windows has been killed off.
http://www.redmondpie.com/windows-ho...s-server-2012/

If it has things stripped out... that's just not on!

[Mr.James]

Lol. I get that a lot. Like a switch flips me into techy mode and I just start speaking incomprehensible bollox.

It's sort of got stuff stripped out. The home server/small business editions comes with stuff you wouldn't want in an enterprise environment.

It's not like Windows 7 where you have an ultimate version that includes everything in the lower versions.

Home server/small business/windows server have slightly different feature sets as they are tweaked to suit different audiences


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