Re: SBS - Newbie - Need help choosing
- From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:27:25 -0800
Where you have a specialized need for heavy load of something like that, I do recommend offloading it to a standalone server when that's feasible. In this case, I'd look at one based on Windows Storage Server 2003.
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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
"Mike Rendall" <MikeRendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:63864CB2-B94C-4C22-B8D6-8E9E466975E7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi - Thanks everyone for your positive comments. This is of a great help. I
will get the server OS free. I need to store and back up large quantities of
data and I am a little concerned that the one file server will be a little
tied up serving exchange, active directory etc. Do you recommend having a
separate server with 8x500Gb hard drives running Winsvr2003 and add this to
the active directory maintained by SBS? or lumping the whole lot on one
machine?
The benefit to me of separating it out is that large quantities of data is
going to get chucked on it in big streams but irregularly - if someone runs
an experiment that generates lots of realtime data - this will drastically
affect another user trying to use email etc whilst the file transfer is in
progress?
Mike
"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
Buy your server without an OS, if you must get a Dell and they don't have
what you want. Or buy an HP - I've been looking longly at a really nice
little server from them - an ML350G5. Yes, it's a tower, but you can get a
rack kit for it.
But it's easy enough to buy SBS retail. AND it has a definite advantage -
you aren't permanently tied to that one physical box. OEM versions are.
--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
"Mike Rendall" <Mike Rendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E0A67F57-2D5C-4198-979E-28EB57D98583@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I need to set up a server solution at work. We have 25 employees. I >was
> considering SBS since it includes exchange server (which is what we
> require).
> I also need to provide file sharing facilities.
>
> Dell now only provide windows server 2003 on rack servers, so if i get
> this, I will also have to buy exchange server separately? Will the
> licences
> that I have to buy for my 20 additional users work for exchange?
>
> All I am looking for is a rack mount file/exchange server with windows
> small
> business but no-one now seems to sell these (only tower cases). Do you
> recommend this route, or should I utilise Win2003 Server and the > separate
> server packages?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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