A home server gone too far

Some notable specs of the server

• 4GB of RAM
• Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 CPU (2.66GHz)
• A cool little Micro-ATX case
• Adaptec 2405 SATA/SAS RAID controller (crap)
• 2x 500GB SATA drives (RAID-1)
• VMWare ESXi
• Asus P5B-VM SE motherboard

Things to figure out

• Backups of the VMs + important stuffs? Once I get a separate NAS box, I will probably not bother with backups
• How to make it stfu?
  After replacing the stock Intel CPU cooler with a Zalman CNPS8000 the server is now a lot more quiet
• How to successfully add a VLAN from WRT54GL to the server to deliver direct internet connection to the honeypot VMs?
  Using a MTU of 1460 seems to solve my VLAN problems - thanks jups!
  (New Intel GigE card should make this obsolete)
• Attach some leds to the controller to display RAID health status?
  The adaptec can display RAID status on an aggregate LED, however once I move the storage to a NAS box I will get RAID status from Linux

Woes

• No health status (RAID, fans, temperature) in ESXi
• ESXi by default creates the filesystem with a 256G file size limitation
• The NAS virtual machine (Debian etch) I had for serving an NFS share to the other VMs had problems with network connectivity, often losing it completely when doing big transfers. I've ditched the NAS now, but I still don't know what the root of the problem was, and will it come back with the other VMs
• ESXi seems to hang pretty often, the adaptec is probably faulty? Considering switching to a NAS based solution

Based on the observations above, the TODO list is:

• Replace the old 3c59x with a recent gigabit ethernet card
• Replace the Adaptec with a NAS; move the newly diskless ESXi to an even smaller case and give the NAS this larger case
• Maybe boot ESXi using PXE

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