…the “Armitage” personality was constructed as part of experimental “computer-mediated psychotherapy”…

This is armitage, my Dell t7910.
It runs all sorts of long-lived and short-lived vms.

Current specs

• Two E5-2667v4’s
• 64gb of ram per socket
• VM Storage: LSI SAS3008
  • 4x Intel SSDSC2BB016T4 (1.6TB)
  • 4x HGST HE10 (10TB Helium)
• Boot Storage: Startech.com 2x mSata carrier card with Marvell chipset
  • 2x 64gb Sandisk whatevers
• Boot graphics: Old radeon 5450 or something
• Workload graphics: Quadro K2000

Planned upgrades

I’m going to double the amount of ram, add a modest gaming gpu, and spin up a new nvme storage pool - assuming the motherboard supports bifurcation like the internet says it does.

If reddit is right, I’ll order another of those dell cards for a total of 4x 1TB intel datacenter something nvme.

If not, I’ll have to get a card with a PLX switch. One from supermicro runs around 200 bones.

On another note, I’m not the biggest fan of the msata carrier card for boot/root. I might get a 6-bay adapter for the ssds and move boot/root to 2.5" disks. Kinda spense tho. It would allow me to have two 2-slot gpus in the future though… If I’m ever able to upgrade my desktop graphics I could have two rx580s in there. Which would play great into my gaming server plans.

Why have one when you can have two, amirite?