Since my initial setup with Server 2, I haven't rebooted the Host machine since about June 9th. The Core i7 seems to be humming right along. Ubuntu 9.04 Server 64 - no issues there either.
The GRUB loader that was installed with 9.04 detected the pre-installed Windows Vista, and asked if I wanted to be able to load it. So now if I want, I can load Vista if I ever need. Though as I pointed out, I've never rebooted. I haven't seen any need to boot into Vista yet.
3 GB Ethernet ports point to different networks on LAN for different purposes.
I'm a voip guy, so I'm using this gear to setup a Cisco UCM 7.0 / Unity Conn. 7.0 / AsteriskNow Server.
I'm going to start a mediaWiki on this thing soon too, to capture all my discoveries and acquired knowledge. Before I forget them and become dumb again.
As for the consoling to my machines, I do have to RDP to my XP Pro running on VMWare fusion on my Mac, because the Cntrl + Alt does not work properly when directly using the VMWare fusion console. The system shifts the input context from my XPonFusion out to my Mac instead of from the Server 2 Console window to XPonFusion. How annoying!
I'm using a ZT Systems hardware from Costco. Cheapest fully built i7 machine. I know, I could build my own for cheaper, but I decided long ago, I'm not going to be Tech Support for my self. Anyway they have a 90-day warranty on the whole system. If I don't like it, or it does not work, I take it back to the local store for full refund. Oh, and they dropped the price another $100 this week.
I added 2-320 SATA drives so my guest OSes with more intensive read/write activities can be separated from each other.
