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Well for those who would love to have a test lab and don’t have the room or money. I got a great way to turn cheap hardware to a efficient virtual lab.

See this all started when I realized that my lab constist of 3 PCs  that ran all the time. The CPU utilization on each of these servers was around 5%

Not enough to justify the use of the electricity, So i was ready to do something about it.

First i took note of the hardware i was using (Powerhog 1.  Pentium 4 2.6ghz  2gb ram and a 160 gb ide HD)  (Powerhog 2. Pentium 4 2.8ghz HT with 2gb ram 120gb Ide HD (Powerhog 3. Pentium 3 1ghz 512ram 2- 160gb ide HD). I know lots of old hardware, but it worked great for a test lab.

So i had my old gaming rig just sitting around recently decommissioned (Asus motherboard Pentium D 2.8ghz 3gb ram 250gb SATA2 HD).

Next thing i did was grab a spare 500gb hd and add to the system for the datastore. Also installed some gigabyte NICs so some of my vm’s can be assigned to a real nic. Well after i got the hardware squared away it was time to install the os and software to get things rolling.

Installed Ubuntu Server 8.10 to the 250gb drive  installed webmin  and VMserver2 for administration and set up Samba so i can push images from any PC .