We are looking at getting rid of the servers we currently have leased and buying equipment to replace it. Our budget is pretty slim, but if we can get rid of the leased hardware we would save a ton of money per month.
Our current set up is way over the top for where our company is now, it was designed/setup for the company to grow and it has shrunk. Currently we have around 25 people who we support and a few custom applications.
The current hardware is a HP Bladecenter chassis with 5 Dual Xenon E5540 with 45GB ram each backed by a Enhance-Tech Ultrastore SAN. Currently there are around 50 Windows 2008 R2 VM's running on ESX 4.1. I am going to turn down a lot of the servers we don't need and bring the non-production ones in to the office.
The heaviest usage comes from a few of the VM's, one creates PDF's all day, the others are SQL 2005/2008 servers. I am not sure if running SQL under a VM is a great idea myself.
Down to the questions:
In our production datacenter I am looking to put the new machines to cover the following (all Windows 2008 R2):
1 AD VM
4 IIS Servers (not heavy traffic)
4 Application Servers (one is heavily used)
4 "File Servers" although I could just map the applications to shares on our NAS.
3 SQL 2005 Database Servers
1 SQL 2008 Database Server
1 vCenter
Could I get away with 2 or 3 E3-1230 based servers (32GB ram each) for this?
Would you trust a pieced together system for production over a pre-built server?
I was looking at for each machine:
1x ASUS RS100-E7/PI2 1U Server Barebone LGA 1155 Intel C204 DDR3 1600/1333/1066
4x Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC Unbuffered Server Memory Intel Model KVR13E9/8I
1x Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge 3.2GHz LGA 1155 80W Quad-Core Server Processor
I have HDD's laying around I can use to load ESX.
Equivilant prebuilt servers appear to be:
HP ProLiant DL120 G7 Rack Server System Intel Xeon E3-1230 3.2GHz 4C/8T 4GB (1 x 4GB) No Hard Drive 658416-S01 but it appears to only support 16GB ram even though it has 4 slots.
Any suggestions?
Our current set up is way over the top for where our company is now, it was designed/setup for the company to grow and it has shrunk. Currently we have around 25 people who we support and a few custom applications.
The current hardware is a HP Bladecenter chassis with 5 Dual Xenon E5540 with 45GB ram each backed by a Enhance-Tech Ultrastore SAN. Currently there are around 50 Windows 2008 R2 VM's running on ESX 4.1. I am going to turn down a lot of the servers we don't need and bring the non-production ones in to the office.
The heaviest usage comes from a few of the VM's, one creates PDF's all day, the others are SQL 2005/2008 servers. I am not sure if running SQL under a VM is a great idea myself.
Down to the questions:
In our production datacenter I am looking to put the new machines to cover the following (all Windows 2008 R2):
1 AD VM
4 IIS Servers (not heavy traffic)
4 Application Servers (one is heavily used)
4 "File Servers" although I could just map the applications to shares on our NAS.
3 SQL 2005 Database Servers
1 SQL 2008 Database Server
1 vCenter
Could I get away with 2 or 3 E3-1230 based servers (32GB ram each) for this?
Would you trust a pieced together system for production over a pre-built server?
I was looking at for each machine:
1x ASUS RS100-E7/PI2 1U Server Barebone LGA 1155 Intel C204 DDR3 1600/1333/1066
4x Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC Unbuffered Server Memory Intel Model KVR13E9/8I
1x Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge 3.2GHz LGA 1155 80W Quad-Core Server Processor
I have HDD's laying around I can use to load ESX.
Equivilant prebuilt servers appear to be:
HP ProLiant DL120 G7 Rack Server System Intel Xeon E3-1230 3.2GHz 4C/8T 4GB (1 x 4GB) No Hard Drive 658416-S01 but it appears to only support 16GB ram even though it has 4 slots.
Any suggestions?