New Server for the office
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
Budget is anywhere under $10k. Could also just go with a NAS if I try Azure AD out, just really can't decide who I want to use for hardware.
Azure AD is a pain to integrate with a NAS. But some NAS like Synology and ioSafe will do full AD right from the NAS (since it is Linux under the hood.) The only NAS vendors that I'd really contemplate are Synology and ReadyNAS for traditional vendors, ioSafe as they do Synology with fire and water proofing added and, of course, SAM-SD devices since you get more power and unlimited flexibility.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
Budget is anywhere under $10k. Could also just go with a NAS if I try Azure AD out, just really can't decide who I want to use for hardware.
Azure AD is a pain to integrate with a NAS. But some NAS like Synology and ioSafe will do full AD right from the NAS (since it is Linux under the hood.) The only NAS vendors that I'd really contemplate are Synology and ReadyNAS for traditional vendors, ioSafe as they do Synology with fire and water proofing added and, of course, SAM-SD devices since you get more power and unlimited flexibility.
ioSafe looks interesting. Whats a 5TB model and cost look like? Or something in that range?
I am also familiar with Synology but I cant remember how. Reminds me of QNAP.
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
I am also familiar with Synology but I cant remember how. Reminds me of QNAP.
Think of it as a business class QNAP.
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ioSafe are so cool. There are loads of videos of people abusing them. Very cool stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@coliver said in New Server for the office:
I would say check out SuperMicro and xByte. They have loads of options available and the support to go along with it.
Same here. If I am buying servers these days, I pretty much only look at @ryan-from-xbyte xByte for Dell equipment or SuperMicro in markets where getting Dell is difficult (Canada!!) or when we need form factors that Dell does not provide. These are our two go to vendors.
Hmm, why xByte instead of going through a Dell rep? Pros / Cons?
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@Tim_G said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@coliver said in New Server for the office:
I would say check out SuperMicro and xByte. They have loads of options available and the support to go along with it.
Same here. If I am buying servers these days, I pretty much only look at @ryan-from-xbyte xByte for Dell equipment or SuperMicro in markets where getting Dell is difficult (Canada!!) or when we need form factors that Dell does not provide. These are our two go to vendors.
Hmm, why xByte instead of going through a Dell rep? Pros / Cons?
Refurbished servers with support at a much better price.
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@coliver said in New Server for the office:
@Tim_G said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@coliver said in New Server for the office:
I would say check out SuperMicro and xByte. They have loads of options available and the support to go along with it.
Same here. If I am buying servers these days, I pretty much only look at @ryan-from-xbyte xByte for Dell equipment or SuperMicro in markets where getting Dell is difficult (Canada!!) or when we need form factors that Dell does not provide. These are our two go to vendors.
Hmm, why xByte instead of going through a Dell rep? Pros / Cons?
Refurbished servers with support at a much better price.
Ah I see... New = Dell, Refurbished + support/warranty = xByte?
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@Tim_G said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@coliver said in New Server for the office:
I would say check out SuperMicro and xByte. They have loads of options available and the support to go along with it.
Same here. If I am buying servers these days, I pretty much only look at @ryan-from-xbyte xByte for Dell equipment or SuperMicro in markets where getting Dell is difficult (Canada!!) or when we need form factors that Dell does not provide. These are our two go to vendors.
Hmm, why xByte instead of going through a Dell rep? Pros / Cons?
Lower cost. Same support. So you either save money or you can get more for the money.
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Oh and xByte doesn't have their reps quit every two weeks like the Dell people do. You can always reach the people that you need.
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For the workload as you have specified, I would totally go with a Synology and be done.
Buy a second one and stick it in the main office and use it as a backup target for he first. Or stick the second one in a colo. Your daily change rate seem small so the offsite replication should be no big deal.
I would not even bother with a server and virtualization and all that overhead (not that it is a lot).
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This with 4 x 3TB drives gives you 6TB of space.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/RS815+ -
Then you can setup something on the one in the colo to backup to some cloud source to get a detached backup of the data. Since the two Synology will be sync and not backup.
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@JaredBusch said in New Server for the office:
This with 4 x 3TB drives gives you 6TB of space.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/RS815+Getting a quote on it now... Thanks!
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@JaredBusch said in New Server for the office:
This with 4 x 3TB drives gives you 6TB of space.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/RS815+Getting a quote on it now... Thanks!
there may be more cost effective models. that was just the first one on the page when I went to get a link for an example.
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@JaredBusch I am curious as to whether I could stick a second unit at a branch office and replicate say 500GB of data with that office. Would it require a VPN or do they have any kind of sync over https?
Or is it the sync I have seen in QNAP. The GUI looks really cool and it looks like exactly what we need..
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@JaredBusch I am curious as to whether I could stick a second unit at a branch office and replicate say 500GB of data with that office. Would it require a VPN or do they have any kind of sync over https?
Or is it the sync I have seen in QNAP. The GUI looks really cool and it looks like exactly what we need..
Looks like I even have one of those models..
I have never used the built in sync. I use them only as a backup target on site. But it has rsync built in.
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@bigbear A diskless 2-bay costs $659.99. You can find pricing on our website.
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@JaredBusch Do you have the disc manager desktop?
These are incredibly cheap!
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@Brett-at-ioSafe could you recommend a model similar to the Synology? Would love to check that out too.
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@JaredBusch I am curious as to whether I could stick a second unit at a branch office and replicate say 500GB of data with that office. Would it require a VPN or do they have any kind of sync over https?
Or is it the sync I have seen in QNAP. The GUI looks really cool and it looks like exactly what we need..
Basically all NAS use Rsync under the hood and Rsync works directly on SSH.
