Hey everyone! I recently inherited a Dell PowerEdge R540 and I'm not exactly sure how old it is, but it's still working well. I'm considering deploying the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO on it, planning to add some big 3.5-inch disks to reach about 70TB of storage and beef up the RAM a bit. So, my question is—do you think this is worth the effort?
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Before you get started, check out the Dell support site using the service tag. It’ll give you the lowdown on its age, original specs, and warranty info.
If this is for a home lab or small business, I’d say go for it! But if it’s for a production environment, you might run into issues. Explaining to management why backups failed on an out-of-warranty server can be tough.
There's definitely still life left in the R540! It should work fine for your intended use if you're not expecting critical enterprise performance.
Thanks for the heads up! I’m leaning toward using it as a secondary repository.