Re: Query about suitable small servers for Xen / Debian

[Chris Myers <chrismyers81@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using J5040 based boards for my dom0s. Have used much lower power hardware previously and it worked fine as well. Dom0s have 1gb of memory allocated to them (16GB total on each dom0) each is running 4-6 paravirt guest vms. With deb12 I needed a minimum of 768M allocated to each guest. With Deb 11 that was just 384M. But it all works fine. Block storage is iscsi from a truenas scale host. Networking on each is a single interface with a dozen vlans. 

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 4:46 AM Jo Mills <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear All,

I am considering re-building my home network using a couple of HP
MicroServers in the following manner, and would be very glad of any
advice or comments on the suitability of the proposed hardware.

Two off identical HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen10 Plus Intel Xeon E-2314
Quad-Core 2.80GHz MicroServers wired back to back using 1Gb Ethernet
(or faster) for a DRBD connection.

Over this will run Xen.

Dom0 would be Debian.

The server must support at least 4 off Ethernet devices each of which
may be addressed uniquely via passthrough.  VMs will be either Debian
or MS-Windows.

I'm not after any great performance, reliability and stability are
what's important.

Best regards,

Jo.