I finally got my HP Proliant N40L doing something useful.

Except for trying something new, it only runs a single instance of windows 7. I have it configured as two logical drives residing on a single 2TB disk. In my testing I had better performance keeping both logical drives on the same disk. Weird, it shouldn't work like that but it does.

I wasn't able to stream movies from iTunes until I tried a million things, the last being adding a new ethernet card as a VMXNET3 instead of E1000.

It is currently able to stream a movie to the appletv while uTorrent grabs more content. Handbrake is also crunching away at the completed downloads and getting them ready for iTunes.

I am still trying to understand what windows is doing with the 7GB of RAM I gave it. Using the performance monitor I haven't ever seen it go above 2.41. Usually it doesn't go about 1GB. The memory usage stays consistant so it must be doing something.