Iron for a small server

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u_story2012-11-01 13:41:59

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u_story, 2012-11-01 13:41:59

At work, there is a desire to assemble a small virtualization server, literally 5-10 virtual machines. Small loads: several web applications, DBMS for tests, several network services, etc. Those. no applications under constant load. No super critical data.

Here there was a question of selection of iron, and in particular, there are several questions:
1) Do you need a hardware RAID? I used to think that without it, nowhere, everything would hellishly slow down. Now I doubt it, maybe a software raid and top hard drives will solve all the problems.
2) Does it make sense in a server motherboard and memory with ECC? Do I need to pay attention to the timings of the RAM, or will I not notice the difference?
3) What will be more important for the processor, frequency or number of cores? Will hyper-threading help?

Thank you.

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oia, 2012-11-01
@oia

If the AMD FX8150 config 32 GB RAM + controller for RAID would take small loads, you can hang it on an SSD, but depending on how much space you need for machines,

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snp, 2012-11-01
@snp

ECC is good. If the budget allows, then take it.

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voooz, 2012-11-01
@voooz

1) 1с бухгалетрия (терминальный доступ для 1ого человека)
1C will periodically load the entire node quite heavily, or slow down itself (if you cut IO and CPU for it)

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amc, 2012-11-02
@amc

Please, server platform with hotswap, no raid.

The same, without hotswap and raid, the percentage is 200 MHz less, the price is 14000 less.
The only limitation of this platform is 16GB of maximum memory (at least officially)
. it is only for a price guide (here UDIMM and not RDIMM).
ECC memory must be taken, because. the difference in price is negligibly small (and Xeons without ECC won't even start).

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amc, 2012-11-03
@amc

This is not a storage system, this is a regular low-power (and therefore cheap) server.
market.yandex.ru/compare.xml?hid=91019&CAT_ID=651600&CMD=-CMP=7752392 ,7188797,8334712
The performance will be close (AMD is now slower than Intel of the same frequency), hotter.
You can look at www.citilink.ru/catalog/servers_and_net_equipments/servers/692334/
there is just 32GB officially
www.fujitsu.com/ru/products/computing/servers/primergy/tower/tx120/
In your case, an almost ideal solution, compact and Everything that's needed.
PS: naive…

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lexa-316, 2018-11-27
@lexa-316

I bought a tower server from ASUS TS _700 at https://best-practice.ru. delivered very quickly. And I'm just delighted with the options of this server. Everything that is stated by the manufacturers is really true. Recommend.