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Recently my company upgraded our storage system and now we have a few old Dell Power Vault NX3330 sitting around not being used.

So I heard that it is possible to install the full windows server OS onto these windows storage server machine, as they are essentially the same hardware as the power edge server.

I am just wondering if anyone know what's the step to achieve that? I Would really love to repurpose these machine for something else so I don't have to throw them away.

wowpeter
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This should be technically possible, since they usually run Windows Storage Server, thus they are definitely compatible with a full Windows Server installation; however, this would be a completely unsupported configuration, and is thus off-topic here.

The actual steps to install a different OS on them would depend on which I/O devices are available on the units; if they have a video port and some USB ports, this should be pretty easy. If they don't, it could get tricky.

Massimo
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  • Not entirely useful responds, but thanks for your comments anyway. I have seen plenty of other questions similar to this for other system, so not exactly uncommon type of questions. – wowpeter May 05 '21 at 03:19