So after 8 (now going on 9) years it's time to look to put our SBS 2003/2003 servers to pasture.
Our current setup is:
ABQ - SBS 2003 dual Xeon (2ghz) 4GB ram
2U supermicro with 3ware 5 disk raid 5 (250gb disks sata 7200)
file and print serving (3 users) & DFS (Currently we have about 200GB of data in ABQ)
Exchange got kicked up to the cloud 6 months ago.
Connected via VLAN (ciscos) to
HOU - Server 2003 Standard Xeon 3050 (woodcrest!) 3GB ram
tower server 3ware RAID 5 (4 500GB disks sata 7200)
file and print serving - 1 user (me) & DFS (I keep 370 GB of data on this end)
(I currently do A LOT of GIS work off of this server (so much so I was running infiniband cards between the server and my workstation)
This is what I've spec'ed for servers for us for the next 3, 5 & 7 years (based on cost mostly)
We won't go past 10 employees total (if so I will add more resources)
3 yr boxes
ABQ
1U Server
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
4 x 500GB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
SBS 2012 essentials
Hou
Tower
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
4 x 500GB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
server 2012 foundation
5 yr boxes
ABQ
2U Server
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
4 x 1TB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
SBS 2012 essentials
Hou
2U or 4U tower
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
4 x 1 TB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
server 2012 foundation
7 yr boxes
ABQ
2U Server
E3-1270v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
100GB LSI NytroRAID card
4 x 1TB SAS RAID 10
SBS 2012 essentials
Hou
2U or Tower
E3-1270v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
100GB LSI NytroRAID card
4 x 1TB SAS RAID 10
server 2012 standard
Any thoughts on these setups, enough storage sas vs sata? Lord willing, and nothing fails on us, we will be migrating sometime this summer.
We are big believers in buying quality equipment that last a good while. Since we are an engineering firm I don't see us getting up into the 'cloud' anytime soon (data is too large) and file servers are going to be our critical assets for the foreseeable future.
Thanks,
Ken
Our current setup is:
ABQ - SBS 2003 dual Xeon (2ghz) 4GB ram
2U supermicro with 3ware 5 disk raid 5 (250gb disks sata 7200)
file and print serving (3 users) & DFS (Currently we have about 200GB of data in ABQ)
Exchange got kicked up to the cloud 6 months ago.
Connected via VLAN (ciscos) to
HOU - Server 2003 Standard Xeon 3050 (woodcrest!) 3GB ram
tower server 3ware RAID 5 (4 500GB disks sata 7200)
file and print serving - 1 user (me) & DFS (I keep 370 GB of data on this end)
(I currently do A LOT of GIS work off of this server (so much so I was running infiniband cards between the server and my workstation)
This is what I've spec'ed for servers for us for the next 3, 5 & 7 years (based on cost mostly)
We won't go past 10 employees total (if so I will add more resources)
3 yr boxes
ABQ
1U Server
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
4 x 500GB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
SBS 2012 essentials
Hou
Tower
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
4 x 500GB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
server 2012 foundation
5 yr boxes
ABQ
2U Server
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
4 x 1TB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
SBS 2012 essentials
Hou
2U or 4U tower
E3-1230v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
4 x 1 TB (RE4) sata RAID 10 (intel rst)
server 2012 foundation
7 yr boxes
ABQ
2U Server
E3-1270v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
100GB LSI NytroRAID card
4 x 1TB SAS RAID 10
SBS 2012 essentials
Hou
2U or Tower
E3-1270v2
16 GB ram
2 SSD (128GB) RAID 1 OS
100GB LSI NytroRAID card
4 x 1TB SAS RAID 10
server 2012 standard
Any thoughts on these setups, enough storage sas vs sata? Lord willing, and nothing fails on us, we will be migrating sometime this summer.
We are big believers in buying quality equipment that last a good while. Since we are an engineering firm I don't see us getting up into the 'cloud' anytime soon (data is too large) and file servers are going to be our critical assets for the foreseeable future.
Thanks,
Ken