I got one of these suckers for free from work. I already have

>>55539841
throw it away you already got plex,backups,seedbox

>>55539841
>i7 and 16gb RAM
Renderfarm node or virtualization

>>55539871

I was looking into virtualization - assuming I want something like vmware vsphere instead of just installing VMs via virtual box or something similar?

>>55539841

Load balance your current home server? Replicate your backups? Use this as a secondary seedbox? Something new altogether?

>>55539936
>assuming I want something like vmware vsphere
Yes, ESXi is the go to for virtualization.
Else HyperV is also an option.

>>55539841
Give it to me, Its more powerful than my main rig

I want one as a Linux box separate from my Windows PC. If I already had NAS setup then that would be ideal.

>>55539841
If you're doing any Plex transcoding, depending on what your server is, I'd move it to this.

Otherwise, ESXi or Hyper-V work well for virtualization on them.

You lucky bastard. Anyway, definitely transcoding or some kind of virtualisation.

>>55540183
>>55540199

It's more powerful than the current server but migrating things over would be a pain, and I haven't hit any bottlenecks with the other server that would really prompt me to want to upgrade

I don't have a pure Linux box like >>55540110 suggested, so that's a possibility... though I don't have much use for one

HyperV might be good, it can virtualize Linux machines correct?