If its virtual systems you're after, just to throw it out there check out EMC VXRail.
http://www.vce.com/products/hyper-converged/vxrail We had a demo on these the other week and they are very impressive. Dell also do an similar FX2. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: 22 February 2016 14:06 To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Server Hardware 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 SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, J.M. Cubbon, M.W. Denton, K.M. Goldie, O Peck, J. Watterson SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, R.K. Corkill, M.W. Denton, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, J.J. Scott SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, S.J. Turner SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
