Today a company have a DL380P gen8 with E5-2620 v2 CPU, 32GB RAM, 2x120GBSSD in R1 as system and 5x300GB 6G SAS as storage, and they want an upgrade, mainly because of need for more space on discs.
The DL385 Gen10 seems quite fine as an replacement, but I see some of them is delivered with AMD EPYC 7251 and other AMD cpu's.
Is the AMD cpu 100% compatible with ClearOS? And is there anyone with some advice for what series of discs to look for?
Usage is very intensive to email (Zarafa today), they use attachments up to 50MB in mails, and they have alot of these mails, there is the hickup today. They demand no waiting time to get their emails up and running. Using Thunderbird on W7/W8/W10 clients today. No virtualizing today, maybe a old WXP as "fileserver" for some waterjet machines who run good old DOS as OS.
The DL385 Gen10 seems quite fine as an replacement, but I see some of them is delivered with AMD EPYC 7251 and other AMD cpu's.
Is the AMD cpu 100% compatible with ClearOS? And is there anyone with some advice for what series of discs to look for?
Usage is very intensive to email (Zarafa today), they use attachments up to 50MB in mails, and they have alot of these mails, there is the hickup today. They demand no waiting time to get their emails up and running. Using Thunderbird on W7/W8/W10 clients today. No virtualizing today, maybe a old WXP as "fileserver" for some waterjet machines who run good old DOS as OS.
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I can't help with hints. My server is a homebrew and not really of server quality, using standard desktop components. My Microserver is on loan to me. A recent PC Pro article liked the HP ProLiant ML350 Gen10, £1,799 + tax diskless, and the Lenovo ThinkSystem ST550, £1,809+tax, diskless. Both are out of my league as a home server. -
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Nick; thanks for your answer. Now I see that DL380 is Intel and DL385 is AMD. I have tried to make some setups today, and I see price has raised tremendously since 2014 :-O A whopping US$ 8.500 for an pretty basic server with less disks and only 1 PSU and CPU, that's alot more than what the Gen8 was priced in 2014. I'm trying to look at other brands like Fujitsu, Lenovo, and others, to see what I end with. I see also the next-day-24/7-service level has multipled in price since 2014, so that's a no-go for the company. I see i.e. Fujitsu don't have same level on remote management etc, but to be honest I've not used the HP Ilo more than a few times, not enough to justify the hefty price.
Trying to find some tests / comparsions of servers for SMB-market. Any hints and links are most welcome. -
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AFAIK, the AMD processors in the G10 are 100% compatible with ClearOS. Bear in mind HP supply ClearOS preinstalled and I can't imagine them supplying anything which won't work. I have a G10 with the AMD X3216 processor and it is fine.
For Zarafa, I believe it can be quite database intensive, so, if your customers are very demanding, it may be an idea to get system-mysql onto an SSD using the Storage Manager.
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