So I thought I would put some updates as to what’s going on at work:
Project: Dad’s Server
The order has been placed for one hell of a server. The specs are as follows:
- Intel SR2500 Server Chasis
- Intel SRCS28X RAID controller
- Intel BX80574E5420P 2.5Ghz 45nm Quad Core Processor with 12M L2 Cache
- 6 Segate 500gb ES.2 SATA Drives
- 8 GB ECC RAM
- Rackmount Kit
The plan is to put VMWare server on the bad boy with a CentOS minimum install for the host. On top will be:
- Microsoft SBS 2003 R2 to provide Email, SQL and Sharepoint.
- FreeBSD and/or CentOS to provide generic web hosting
- Openfiler to provide an iSCSI target so we can somewhat dynamically assign storage space (We got 2TB but we don’t want to be stupid now) it will also share out backup space through iSCSI or SMB for local backups
- FreeBSD or CentOS to provide outside DNS
The only thing I’m wondering is if you can do Xen and VMWare together to get the best of both worlds when hosting the linux and windows DomU’s