I would bump up the cores to 8 per proc, since that's the minimum licensing you will be able to get from Microsoft, starting in July.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 7:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Server Hardware It has been almost 7 years since I selected server hardware. What are peoples preference? I used to be a big HP fan mostly because I used Compaq servers back in the day. I had a lot of clients use Dell mostly because of the price but I found there support poor. How are Lenovo Servers? I am a big ThinkPad fan. I am building a product where I need to deploy a large amount of servers at remote locations. Each server will need to run 4 VMs Microsoft's recommended specs are: o 64-bit dual processor, six core (12 real cores), 2.50 gigahertz (GHz) or higher o 64 gigabytes (GB) ECC RAM o Four 600 GB (or better) 10K RPM 128M Cache SAS 6Gbps disks, configured in a RAID 5 configuration o Three 1 Gbps RJ45 high throughput network adapters Remote monitoring and management will be key. I will most likely be deploying Operations Manager but I need to confirm if I can install software on the Guest OS . Cheers Ryan
