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"Guy Macon" http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote in message ... Jeffrey Alsip wrote: LC wanted some action here, and this is the best I can do on short notice. This is my latest ebay buy: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9732211015 I am extremely happy with it (for the price). What do you think? Did I get hosed? I think that I may have you beat: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9732461901 (I know that it's a Xeon and not a Pentium Pro from the location of the keyboard/mouse connectors, but the number of Xeons is unknown...) Then again, I may have a different opinion after it arrives and I power it up. that would be on UNECONOMICAL BEAST to run ... consider selling internal organs, or mortaging any children you might have to cover the electrical bill to operatat this thing ... also, i would not recommend hosting this anywhere that makes you pay by the U .... it has an SA4350 Controller (3 x internal channels, 1 for each drive cage), so all 18drives can be part of the same logical volume. If its a Xeon ... all the better. It would make a nice DB system, or possibly email server ... thats about it. whats freight running you on that beast ? - LC |
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"Guy Macon" http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote in message ... NuTCrAcKeR wrote: DO NOT install exchange on a DC !!!!! I was just put in charge of IT at my company (in addition to design engineering -- aren't small companies fun?) Guess what is installed on the domain controller? Everything! Exchange, Goldmine, Visual manufacturing, Symantec antivirus thrashing away checking every file everyone accesses... All on a 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. CPU utilization is pegged at 100%, 1.2GB of memory is in use, and the swap file is going nuts. I am going to propose 3 machines that just do primary/secondary/ tertiary domain control, DHCP, and maybe DNS, with seperate new servers for Exchange, Goldmine, and Visual manufacturing, plus a file server. Any ammunition concerning the badness of install exchange on a DC would be appreciated. You didnt mention what hardware platform that box is running .... I would suggetst the following: Up the memory as its memory starved. That will buy you time for now. Add a CPU also, since at the very least windows and exchange will benefit from the 2nd CPU. Be careful when updating the HAL ... ive seen [people go about it incorrectly and thus render thier windows installs inoperative. When you get more hardware, peel the DC functions off that box and put it on something else. Preferrably 2 different AD boxes for availability. Each would inherantly be a DNS server. You can do split scope DHCP on each of them if you wish, again for availabililty. You can put the Symantec, visual manufacturing, and goldmine all on one box. Make sure it has enough memory for the job. |
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Guy Macon wrote:
NuTCrAcKeR wrote: DO NOT install exchange on a DC !!!!! Any ammunition concerning the badness of install exchange on a DC would be appreciated. A simple visit to Microsoft's support site and a search will provide you with plenty of ammunition. support.microsoft.com Of course after all of that you'll find that MS will happily sell you that very configuration in its Small Business Server package. Granted, its scaled down the functionality of AD (it HAS to be the master, member servers are allowed though) How many users well be accessing the system? Can you create 3 disitinct drive arrays? How much memory could you add? VinceV |
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"VinceV" wrote in message oups.com... Guy Macon wrote: NuTCrAcKeR wrote: DO NOT install exchange on a DC !!!!! Any ammunition concerning the badness of install exchange on a DC would be appreciated. A simple visit to Microsoft's support site and a search will provide you with plenty of ammunition. support.microsoft.com Of course after all of that you'll find that MS will happily sell you that very configuration in its Small Business Server package. Granted, its scaled down the functionality of AD (it HAS to be the master, member servers are allowed though) How many users well be accessing the system? Can you create 3 disitinct drive arrays? How much memory could you add? VinceV yah, i was going to ask if it was running SBS ... can only have 1 DC what that product too. |
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I live near Portland and would have happily previewed it for you.....
VinceV |
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NuTCrAcKeR wrote: (Speaking of a proliant 7000) that would be on UNECONOMICAL BEAST to run ... consider selling internal organs, or mortaging any children you might have to cover the electrical bill to operatat this thing ... also, i would not recommend hosting this anywhere that makes you pay by the U .... it has an SA4350 Controller (3 x internal channels, 1 for each drive cage), so all 18drives can be part of the same logical volume. If its a Xeon ... all the better. It would make a nice DB system, or possibly email server ... thats about it. whats freight running you on that beast ? $139.79, so it's really a $150 box. A while back I had a client in my lab and he saw my existing stack of a 7000 and a 5500R. Later, after I had done several hundred hours of consulting work for him at $100/hour, he told me that my PC was a big factor in choosing me. Irrational, but the cash didn't seem to be any less green because of it. I am planning on stacking two 7000 chassis, with the top one gutted except for the drives/backplane which will be controlled by the bottom one. I am going to put in a modern motherboard with quad SLI and either two Pentium Core duos or whaterver AMD comes up with. Why? Because it sounds like fun. Add a cusom paint job and I can make the "Readers Rigs" section of Maximum PC! grin |
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I am planning on stacking two 7000 chassis, with the top one gutted except for the drives/backplane which will be controlled by the bottom one. I am going to put in a modern motherboard with quad SLI and either two Pentium Core duos or whaterver AMD comes up with. Why? Because it sounds like fun. Add a cusom paint job and I can make the "Readers Rigs" section of Maximum PC! grin thats just sick ; ) post a link here when your rig makes the site. |
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"Guy Macon" http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote DO NOT install exchange on a DC !!!!! Any ammunition concerning the badness of install exchange on a DC would be appreciated. Humm - depends... Small Business Server - 20 users - makes sort of economic sense to have a single server. At least from a vendor point of view - easy to sell and support. And if you go down the one-stop-shop route, then SBS is the standard. People like it and pay for it. You have a single server to support, and you can sort of concentrate on that sort of market (SBS, small companies), sell the same thing each time, and keep the cost of maintaining things as low as possible. |
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Nut Cracker wrote: thats just sick ; ) post a link here when your rig makes the site. I'd like to see a picture, myself! When a customer arrives he can start a "defrag"...then he will have a wall of jumping green LED's and sound of a few dozen drives spinning independent of each other. I have to agree with him...it WILL be cool. Of course, that little disk inside of the electric meter will also be spinning like a DVD. Jeff |
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My latest ebay buy just arrived: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9732461901 I figured from the description and the fact that this is a recycling business that the disk drives and RAM would be stripped, but was hoping for at least one Xeon processor. I was right about the drives, but inside I found Quad 500 MHz 2MB Pentium III Xeons and every RAM slot full with "hammerhead" RAM -- looks like it might be a full 8GB! W0OT! $15.49 for the computer and $139.79 for the shipping. Next step; powering it up. |
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