Lack of choice, would have been easier to remain on VM-Ware, now I had to V2V them all over onto a Hyper-V platform. Bought new hardware which supported 16Gb of RAM as the old system was maxed out at 8Gb and I’ve been running out of memory space for a period now making choices what to run and what not to run. As the notification said on the homepage (expires 9th of November) the old server is replaced by a new one. This one runs on a Quadcore 2400S (65W processor) with 16Gb of RAM which in the future can be expanded to 32Gb by replacing all of the DIMMs in the system, this should cover for the coming years. Keeping the price to a minimum came with the consequence it was no longer on any compatibility chart for VM-Ware and indeed the disk subsystem was not recognized, so now we continue on Hyper-V and as far as I know Linux (non Suse) is not really supported but it runs fine (Debian). Another surprise was the power usage. The old one was just below 80 Watts when utilized, this one cuts 20 Watts of it and has one harddrive more (Five 7200RPM WD 2.5″ Laptop drives instead of four in the last one, slowly moved one by one as the VMs moved as well to the new server).

The old server will be configured as a new workstation so the 6 year old HPs I still have can find a new place to live. But before that happens need get a new processor fan, after running over three years 24/7 the bearings are just about to cave in. The system has been a bit noisier than usual the last few months. For the rest it is ready to start its second life.