Windows Home Server 2011 Available at Newegg and Amazon
If you’ve been awaiting the system builder copies of Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 to become available, you no longer have to wait. Both Newegg and Amazon are currently selling the software. If you’re the daring sort, you can even upgrade an old MediaSmart WHS box, read about Mike’s experience if you haven’t already.
So now that WHS 2011 is in the wild for all, are you building one? Let’s hear what your plans are and what you think about WHS 2011.
When the time comes, I am
When the time comes, I am actually thinking of putting in an iSCSI SAN (with Nexentra or something else that uses ZFS) in the core and then connecting my RecordedTV Media Center Storage to that. Also considering using it with WHS 2011 and get the nice features of WHS (Backup, Media Center integration, etc) while using a more “robust” file system on the backend.
jmallory wrote:When the time
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When the time comes, I am actually thinking of putting in an iSCSI SAN (with Nexentra or something else that uses ZFS) in the core and then connecting my RecordedTV Media Center Storage to that. Also considering using it with WHS 2011 and get the nice features of WHS (Backup, Media Center integration, etc) while using a more “robust” file system on the backend.
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When the time comes make sure to blog about it here! I’d be interested in reading it.
I have a iSCSI SAN setup at home and played with using it for Recorded TV. Worked great for a 3-4 simultaneous recordings but when that jumped to 6-8 it congested my network too much. If I re-wired my network and had a dedicated NIC for the SAN I don’t think it would have been a problem.
I live in a town-home so my attempt at convincing my wife that I needed to rip off the drywall to rewire the network didn’t go to well…
What did work very well for “low usage” HTPCs was iSCSI Remote Boot. My bedroom HTPC no longer has ANY hard disks in it. Everything is via iSCSI. Sadly not all network cards support network booting though I wouldn’t even attempt it if you don’t have a “nice” Intel NIC.
Has anyone here tried running
Has anyone here tried running WHS under a virtual machine setup?
oliverredfox wrote:
Has
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Has anyone here tried running WHS under a virtual machine setup?
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I have run it in VMware Fusion for testing, worked fine. For production, you would probably want to run it on VMware ESXi or Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 where you can pass the disks directly to the virtual machine.
I was curious to how the
I was curious to how the quality of playback is of OTA recorded transfered content from a HTPC over remote access?