Hi, I have to setup the "IT infrastructure" for a small company(my company) we are moving to a temporary office and I was thinking of consolidating all in one server.
I have to select the hardware to run the core services for our team(~10 workstations) and I'm not sure how much horsepower I actually need. It has been a long time since I've done admin stuff.
I run my personal stuff on SmartOS/OmniOS so I'd like to use a SmartOS server.
This are the VM/zones I plan to setup:
Currently I'm taking in consideration this HW:
A) Avoton C2750 based board with 32GB of RAM
B) E3-1230 quad core with 32GB of RAM
C) Xeon D-1540 based board with 32GB of RAM
D) Do I need more beef?
NOTE: All configs with 4x 1Gb NICs and 4 HDD in 3 way mirror on ZFS + 1 hot spare
What do you think is a reasonable HW choice? Price is not really a major concern if it is around 2000$ (chassis and HDDs excluded) but less is obviously better as it is somewhat temporary. When we move to a more definitive office next year I'll build a more future proof setup.
thank you for your time
ciao
Alberto
I have to select the hardware to run the core services for our team(~10 workstations) and I'm not sure how much horsepower I actually need. It has been a long time since I've done admin stuff.
I run my personal stuff on SmartOS/OmniOS so I'd like to use a SmartOS server.
This are the VM/zones I plan to setup:
- AD Domain Controller:
- either SmartOS zone samba4(to be tested) or KVM + Windows Server (~10 users)
- File Server:
- SmartOS zone with samba as a company file share(light usage, just to store standard company SW installations and such)
- DB server:
- SmartOS zone (light load 1 or 2 concurrent users)
- Version control server (SVN):
- SmartOS zone (light load 1 or 2 concurrent users)
- Dev test VM:
- KVM zone with Windows server(only used for occasional testing)
Currently I'm taking in consideration this HW:
A) Avoton C2750 based board with 32GB of RAM
B) E3-1230 quad core with 32GB of RAM
C) Xeon D-1540 based board with 32GB of RAM
D) Do I need more beef?
NOTE: All configs with 4x 1Gb NICs and 4 HDD in 3 way mirror on ZFS + 1 hot spare
What do you think is a reasonable HW choice? Price is not really a major concern if it is around 2000$ (chassis and HDDs excluded) but less is obviously better as it is somewhat temporary. When we move to a more definitive office next year I'll build a more future proof setup.
thank you for your time
ciao
Alberto