chucklyons said:chucklyons says: Charlie...don't know much about the SECU16s (actually, I know NOTHING about those), but please elaborate more on the VM side of things. Platform and whys would be great. I was thinking of doing that myself, but if there are some lessons learned, that would be a great help...
My one physical home server machine is a (now ancient) monster rack mount box with 16 HDD drive bays. It has a quad Xenon CPU and 8GB of RAM.
It runs Windows Server 2008 R2. I use the built in Hyper-V to host several virtual machines. One is an instance of Windows Server 2008 R2 with 1 CPU and 1GB of RAM allocated. I've given it 100GB of disk space.
This VM runs nothing but Premise. 1GB of RAM and 1 2.0GHz CPU is plenty.
I moved all my control interfaces to be Ethernet based (via a combination of Lantronix UDS-10s, MSS-100s, and an MSS-4).
It works totally awesome.
Hope this helps.