Hardware

This is a brief overview of my equipment / computers / home automation.

Main Computer: Mac Pro Dual Intel Xeon w/2 Gigs of ram running Mac OS X

Parallels is used to load up Windows XP for VPN’ing into work.

Home Server:

This is the new server I put together, it controls the following:

Security Server (Video Camera’s with motion detection / recording) - Running ZoneMinder
Media / File Server - 1TB of storage w/rsync of important files to backup offsite.
Home Automation Server - Lighting / Temp control ( Insteon and X10 )
Web Server - light duty / intranet
DB Server - very light / dev work
Backup Server - backup for some production sites
Vmware Server - Running 2 VM’s - Light duty (Win XP and a Linux Distro)
Dev Server - For testing some apps

Sounds like a lot, but its all light duty and this server should be plenty for it. And with the HD choice and the energy efficient options with the Core 2 I should be able keep the energy consumption down.

The server is running Debian GNU/Linux of course.