Guest Guest Posted October 9, 2019 Posted October 9, 2019 We're a small special school with roughly 150 pcs, one of our SAN nodes has just died and we're going to be replacing it with 2 standalone HyperV hosts due to the age and state of the rest of the server infrastructure. We currently have 9 VMs 2 of which are going to be scrapped (print server is merging with file server and RDS gateway is merging with the session host) I've been quoted £2600 inc vat per server for the below spec, i'd be greatful if anyone could give it a once over and give me any feedback. It'd be hosting 2 DCs, 1 general purpose app server (Net2 etc), 1 file/print server running paper cut, SIMS, RDS gateway and host, SCCM and our Unifi controller This would be split over the 2 hosts The spec is: Dell PowerEdge R730xd Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 (8 core, hyper threading, 2.4GHZ) 64GB DDR4 RAM Dual PSU 6x Dell Enterprise Grade 200GB SSD (In a RAID 6 array) - this would be used mainly for databases and boot drives 6x Dell 600GB 15k SAS drives (In a RAID 6 array) - this would be used for storing user data mainly Dell PERC H730 with 1GB cache Any help is greatly appreciated
mrwoberts Posted October 9, 2019 Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) Fairly decent spec. My main query would be the RAM. Was that your choice, based on current VM usage? If it doesn't add a huge amount I'd go for 128 HV-Host 8 GB DC1 6 GB DC2 6 GB APPSVR 8 GB FILEPRNSVR 16 GB SQLSVR 16 GB RDS 16 GB SCCM 8 GB ----------------- 84 GB Some folks would give the SQLSVR more than 16GB, but it depends on your usage. Edited October 9, 2019 by mrwoberts
Guest Guest Posted October 9, 2019 Posted October 9, 2019 Currently we have 60GB in one Host and 48 in the other. We have dynamic memory enabled on several but not all VMs and we're running pretty comfortably. We weren't expecting to be replacing any Server gear anytime soon so I'm trying to keep costs down. The quote includes 4x 16GB DIMMS so theres plenty of room for future expansion if needed
johnlevis Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 I'd like to offer an alternative quote, do you have the full spec @kieran1990? Need to know: Chassis type Redundant PSU? iDRAC? LAN connectivity? Rail kit needed? Warranty needed Probably worth a chat if you'd like to contact me [email protected] John Levis | Software and Solutions Specialist Tel: 0114 321 8609 very-pc.co.uk 1
bald_pig Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 We're a small special school with roughly 150 pcs, one of our SAN nodes has just died and we're going to be replacing it with 2 standalone HyperV hosts due to the age and state of the rest of the server infrastructure. We currently have 9 VMs 2 of which are going to be scrapped (print server is merging with file server and RDS gateway is merging with the session host) I've been quoted £2600 inc vat per server for the below spec, i'd be greatful if anyone could give it a once over and give me any feedback. It'd be hosting 2 DCs, 1 general purpose app server (Net2 etc), 1 file/print server running paper cut, SIMS, RDS gateway and host, SCCM and our Unifi controller This would be split over the 2 hosts The spec is: Dell PowerEdge R730xd Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 (8 core, hyper threading, 2.4GHZ) 64GB DDR4 RAM Dual PSU 6x Dell Enterprise Grade 200GB SSD (In a RAID 6 array) - this would be used mainly for databases and boot drives 6x Dell 600GB 15k SAS drives (In a RAID 6 array) - this would be used for storing user data mainly Dell PERC H730 with 1GB cache Any help is greatly appreciated Speak to ICTDirect_Dave, he should be able to outspec that with 1 generation older hardware for half the price! 1
Lonix Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 Shop around, shop around and shop around. I love this game. Cream every penny you can. For RAM, surprised people are looking at 6GB for a DC, especially with a small network. We have around 1000 and our memory are set to 4GB. Our file/print servers only have a tad more. Still, over doing it on RAM isn't a bad thing.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 Speak to ICTDirect_Dave, he should be able to outspec that with 1 generation older hardware for half the price! I believe I'm already in for this one, however my only having New 800GB enterprise SSD drives has pushed our price up some. Still it's a beast of a machine!
HPlum78 Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 Number of users is only part of the equation when talking RAM in a DC. The DIT files can grow in size for a number of reasons and you should be sizing based on that as well as number of users aoung other things.
Guest Guest Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 I walked in this morning to find the network was down. All VMs running on the SAN were shutdown, luckily everything started fine. We've ordered using the quote above, thanks for everyone's input
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