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Yup Super Micro also do a miniblade chassis so you can run multiple custom built servers in the same chassis.

Meraki <- Very good and cloud managed,

Lenovo ones get my vote - I've got an E420s which is really good although the E530 is good.

Different ISO images take diffrent keys with Windows. As long as you have an OEM version of the software on the machine you are able to use a Volume License key to activate under the Microsoft licensing agreement AFAIK.

Thanks fellas - After playing with Postfix and fiddling around we came across start [Mailcleaner] - which is debian based and I've got that setup including ClamAV/ClamSpam in around 15 mins. Its now relaying mail for us. Thanks Fellas

If Your happy to do the SAN yourself get another intel server chassis or Super Micro chassis stick your disks in that along with a good raid card and lots of nics then Install Open-E Data Storage Software. This will give you the ability to setup the machine as an ISCSI/FC SAN with the ability to easily setup a replicated copy of it either in an Active/Active cluster (extra licensed feature) or Active/Passive meaning you've got an extra Level of HA. EDIT: personally for the hosts I would go with something like the 3 x HP DL360 dual 6 core xeon tons of RAM and does 146gb SAS/SSD drives You can also buy a chassis which supports say 24 disks and then in future all you need to do is stick more drives in the free slots and away you go. I'm not sure why I'm just not a massive fan of those modular systems.

be warned don't play the sound to loud as he swears!

Thats a good point - its currently locked at the moment as its just finishing the backup.

Thats rather annoying! It seems to be that its being very slow verifying also - i'm going to try and update the drivers for the Tape Drive and see if that makes a difference.

Since 2 days ago one of our Backup Exec servers has been running backups at 130mb/s instead of the usual 1500/mbs. Where to start looking?

No you will be able to use it for firewall only just not get updates/support for the device. or use services such as web blocker.

Without a live security subscription not a lot i think - few hundred pounds at most.

Plus 1 for a Smoothie - best thing I ever purchased at my last place. And it also gives you the option that you can say allow for kids 15 mins of youtube per hour lesson meaning that they can't just waste all the time on it.

Watchguards are fairly good devices.

You should be able to setup remote access services and tunnel over 443 is called RAS I think. if not then Watchguard units are good so and the juniper ssl appliances although they are expensive.

Cheers guys - just setting up a VM now.

What kind of data are you after?

How easy is to to setup for say domain xyz.co.uk -> xx.xx.xx.xx domain qwe.com -> yy.yy.yy.yy I have around 40 domains to relay for.

I'm looking for something to use as service provider. I'm purely looking for something to install direct mail to it and then act as a smarthost to relay mail to the end users exchange boxs. EDIT: should say we currently use MailMarshall

I know this may not be most people's here normal line of work but i thought I would ask anyway to see what people think. I'm looking for a Mail Transfer softwares which is either Windows or Linux based but essentially needs to be able to receive email and forward on to lots of multiple servers depending on the domain sent. If possible having a built in AV would be good but not a requirement as it all is scanned at the firewall on the way in. Any Recommendations?

Open-e supports read caching but not in the same way as ZFS - a little bit more info here Memory utlization

Open-E Also do educational discounts Educational Program | Open-E In which they will double the storage license. So buy 4TB license get 8TB etc

I know it defiantly does the write caching I will need to find out about the Read caching. Not sure on the RAM but it is probably cheaper to stick an SSD Caching Kit (if it supports the read cache) in then more RAM. The recommendation for Ram is 1GB per 1TB of storage. I know that on NAS/NFS Volumes you can set them up as WORM volumes. Let me pop the question through to somebody who knows.

It is possible and not stupidly expensive (extra 800/1k) - you could always use SSD caching which will give you High IOP's but use SAS for larger disks. Active Passive is also really simple to setup once you have worked out Active-Active (or Active-Active is easy to work out once you have active-passive sorted).