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adorai posted:So that's where you need a definition. to me, precise time is off by less than a second, whereas good enough to 99.9999% of the population is 30s off. When trying to troubleshoot multi-system issues, being able to accurately compare logs and packet traces and the like and be sure of the order of events is pretty useful. And that generally means sub-second accuracy.
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I've been happy with my Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T with the Xeon D-1541 8-core processor for my home lab, but I valued quiet and low power (and ability to eventually upgrade to 128GB of RAM) over price.
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Punkbob posted:I’d argue that knowing the concepts behind virtualization is useful, but learning the nitty gritty of esxi is not useful. I would never hire someone who built a home lab to build out a VMware environment. Learning the nitty gritty of esxi is putting the cart before the horse. I’d be much more inclined to hire a sysadmin that got the concepts behind the workflows that it enables as well as having a strong background in being a server janitor. A home lab is a small bonus in an interview but it can also be a major turn off of a candidate if they don’t get “it”. I can't imagine a scenario where having a home lab (be it physical hardware at home or a setup in a cloud service) would be a negative for me as an interviewer since it demonstrates at least some drive to learn outside of work/school environments. Even if I disagree with the relevance of what they're doing with the lab the existence of it isn't a negative.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:If you're looking to do a nested virtual lab the Supermicro Xeon D motherboard/SoC is the best bang for the buck. I love mine and how quiet it is, but pricewise it's a much bigger hit than a Dell server off eBay.
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Magnetic North posted:Care to describe the alternative you're alluding to? All I did was google "Win 10 price" and saw Pro was $199.99. 96 Port Hub posted:Well if you just want a VM host, Hyper-V core is free. If he has Windows 7 which he says he has, the Windows 7 key will work fine for activating Windows 10. Microsoft said they were going to stop the free Win 7/8 -> 10 upgrades on 12/31/17, but it's still working from what I hear. They'll give you the flavor (Home vs Pro) as you have on Windows 7, so if you have Windows 7 Home you'll need to upgrade to Pro to use Hyper-V. Might be more cost efficient to just buy one of the Win 7 Pro codes BrownThunder is selling in SA-Mart for $25. I've bought two for setting up some Win 10 VMs and they've worked fine (though I did it before 12/31).
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ConfusedUs posted:Does anyone know of any good courses on Udemy.com or Lynda.com (or similar) that are basically Packt Publishing has a number of videos which can be purchased directly from them or are included with a Safari Books Online subscription (which is a great thing for people who need access to lots of IT books but might be overkill for tier 1 folks)
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