New Dev Environment

It is finally up and running!
My Dell E1505 with 2 GB RAM was just not cutting it anymore, it worked fine for K2.net 2003 Dev but the resource requirements for K2 [blackpearl] has grown substantially. Even if I upgrade to a super notebook with 4 GB RAM, I still would be limited in what I want out of a proper Dev environment. I wanted to have an environment which closely matches real-world K2 production environments, and trying to build that with decent performance on a Notebook with 4 GB RAM is close to impossible.

So, I decided to move my DEV environment from my notebook onto a virtualization server. Now I have 5 virtual servers and a virtual workstation as my new DEV environment. It is a true multi-domain distributed K2 environment. The beauty is that I was able to build a fairly powerful Virtual Host Server for about the same price as a high-end 4 GB Notebook, i.e. for about $2000. Here is what 2000 bucks got me:

Rack Server from serversdirect.com (http://www.serversdirect.com)

· Motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-I Server Board
· CPU #1: Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5405 Processor @ 2.00GHz
· CPU #2: Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5405 Processor @ 2.00GHz
· Memory: 10 GB , ECC Fully Buffered
· Disk I/O: 6x SATA2 3.0Gbps Ports via
· H/Disk #1: Seagate SATAII 160GB
· H/Disk #2: Maxtor SATAII 1TB
· Network: Integrated Intel Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller

And, this is what it looks like: