Do I Get A Failover Host?

[Jcx500]

Hi All,

 

I am in two minds whether to get a secondary hyper v host. My employer is a new school and we just have a very high spec hp gen 10 server with about 18 vm's on it . But it had issues recently so i don't know what to do with this modern day idea of going serverless or to continue to develop my on prem infrastructure

[PotNoodleTech]

Yes, the beauty of hyperV or Vmware is that you do not have to buy an all singing and dancing £10,000 server to run it. Go to ICT Direct, Serversource or IT In Stock and buy a refurbished one or two gen old server chocked full of hard disks and have that sitting in another area of the schools just waiting for a failover event to happen.

 

A Dell R720XD with 2 x 128GB SSD for OS and 12 x 4TB HDD for data does the job lovely. No need to spend much more than £2000.