ashleypoxon
IS-IT--Management
Hi,
I have the opportunity to refresh all of our server infrastructure. The company are currently working on an old NT4 domain with acient hardware to suit this. This needs to be replaced and quick. We have about 20 servers in total ranging from NT4 to Server 2003, some are just print servers, a PDC, and some host our main SQL database, as well as other bespoke applications. Not all of the servers are going to be replaced just yet. My main goal is to replace the NT4 domain and the print servers, possibly also the file server. We have about 110 users in the office, with another 130 across the globe who come in through remote access.
What I'm thinking is, do I go for rackmounted servers with their own disks, or look at the possibility of implementing SAN. We do not have a massive budget and this would be my main concern as I do not think our organization would really benefit fropm the high availability that this product offers. We do not need to have 100% uptime.
I personally was thinking of going for a DL380 and running XenServer to virtualize our infrastructure.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
I have the opportunity to refresh all of our server infrastructure. The company are currently working on an old NT4 domain with acient hardware to suit this. This needs to be replaced and quick. We have about 20 servers in total ranging from NT4 to Server 2003, some are just print servers, a PDC, and some host our main SQL database, as well as other bespoke applications. Not all of the servers are going to be replaced just yet. My main goal is to replace the NT4 domain and the print servers, possibly also the file server. We have about 110 users in the office, with another 130 across the globe who come in through remote access.
What I'm thinking is, do I go for rackmounted servers with their own disks, or look at the possibility of implementing SAN. We do not have a massive budget and this would be my main concern as I do not think our organization would really benefit fropm the high availability that this product offers. We do not need to have 100% uptime.
I personally was thinking of going for a DL380 and running XenServer to virtualize our infrastructure.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.