Re: Query about suitable small servers for Xen / Debian

[Leigh Brown <leigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2023-09-20 10:45, Jo Mills wrote:
> I am considering re-building my home network using a couple of HP
> MicroServers in the following manner, and would be very glad of any
> advice or comments on the suitability of the proposed hardware.
>
> Two off identical HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen10 Plus Intel Xeon E-2314
> Quad-Core 2.80GHz MicroServers wired back to back using 1Gb Ethernet
> (or faster) for a DRBD connection.
>
> Over this will run Xen.
>
> Dom0 would be Debian.
>
> The server must support at least 4 off Ethernet devices each of which
> may be addressed uniquely via passthrough.  VMs will be either Debian
> or MS-Windows.
>
> I'm not after any great performance, reliability and stability are
> what's important.
I ran Debian/Xen on a pair of HP MicroServer N40L servers for a number
of years, including a pair of VMs using DRBD as shared storage. It was
totally reliable. YMMV :-)

Regards,

Leigh.