RE: Lots of advice needed on new HA server setup

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone fancy tackling one or two of these questions?

Thanks,

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 26 July 2006 15:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Lots of advice needed on new HA server setup
>
> I'm looking for lots of views and opinions on the following please...
>
> Another set of advice and recommendations needed for my new HA and
home
> office server infrastructure.
>
> This is my current HA and business server PC setup:
>
> 1. Main Server (W2K3) running Exchange, IIS, DHCP etc + LOTS of HA
Apps
> 2. Geovision CCTV PC (XP)
> 3. Asterisk @ Home Linux PC
> 4. Bonded ADSL router (Linux)
>
> The main server is suffering from 90-100% CPU utilisation for a high
> percentage of the time, so I want to split it out to two boxes, one
the
> Exchange and traditional server bits and one the HA bits. I also need
to
> try and quieten it down as it uses noisy fans and especially disks.
It's
> currently a dual P3 1 Ghz 1GB ram machine. Also want to get RAID5
array in
> there with hot swap capability etc.
>
> This is what I'm thinking:
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> 1. Main Server - W2K3 R2 Standard server
>    Running:
>    Exchange Server 2003 Standard (only 2 accounts but lots of old
email)
>    RAID5 file server array (1TB?)
>    DHCP, DNS, WINS etc
>    IIS
>    FTP
>    POP2Exchange
>
> 2. HA Server - Possibly running W2K3 R2 Standard server?
>    Running:
>    Telcanto MP3 Server
>    WinAmp multi zones
>    HomeSeer 2
>    HomeSeer Speaker inc VR?
>    xAP Switchboard, Ping, Hub, Tel, Weather, Speech
>    Main Lobby Server
>    NeoSpeech Voices
>    Anything else that comes along
>
> 3. Geovision CCTV PC - XP or W2K3 Server?
>    1240-8 Geovision card
>    Geovision software only
>    P4 2.4GHz min
>    1 Gb RAM
>    400 Gb HDD
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> 4. Asterisk Server
>    Existing Dell SC420 box ported to rack mount case???
>    CentOS Linux
>    Asterisk @ Home
>
> 5. Bonded ADSL Max Router
>    Proprietary Linux build
>    3 x ADSL PCI cards
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> So what do you think?
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> My questions are:
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> 1) What OS's would you use on the HA Server and Geovision PC and why?
> 2) What hardware spec would you use on the main server and HA server?
> 3) Are there any rack cases that:
>    a) look good - aesthetics will be important
>    b) are quiet and allow good airflow
>    c) don't cost a fortune
> 4) What redundancy would you build in? I have a large UPS but would
you
> put in redundant PSU's etc? Anything else?
> 5) Heat output is an issue, so need to keep it cool as poss - what
> processors and disks would you use?
>
> Anything else?
>
> Many thanks,
>
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> Paul.
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