On 2/16/11 9:30 PM, Vancho Gjeorgjievski wrote:
Hi guys,
My name is Vancho, I work as a system engineer for small software
company located in Australia. The company I work for has 15 business
critical servers, based on Microsoft platform, which I manage on daily
basis, and one of the key ITSM services I provide is Backup
Management. We’re not satisfied with Windows Backup features and
performance, so we decided to replace it with Bacula. I read a lot
about this software and I found it to be quite in compliance with our
company’s requirements. Currently I’m preparing detailed design for
the Bacula deployment, and at the moment I’m facing difficulties
selecting the appropriate hardware for Bacula to run on. In the Bacula
documentation I couldn’t find the section that points to the minimal
or the optimal hardware requirements.
So I thought to ask you to help me with my trouble, could you please
recommend which hardware would be most suitable for my environment?
The spread sheet contains the servers that consist our server farm.
Thanks in front! J
Server
Role
OS
Processor
RAM
HDD
Network
vartry
DC
Windows Server 2008 x86
_2xXeon@2.7GHz <mailto:2xXeon@2.7GHz>_
3GB
40 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
ryex2010svr01
Exchange server 2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
_2xXeon@3.6GHz <mailto:2xXeon@3.6GHz>_
4GB
150 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
ulster
CRM
Windows Server 2008 x86
_2xXeon@2.8GHz <mailto:2xXeon@2.8GHz>_
2GB
70 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
galway
Management server
Windows Server 2003 x86
_8xXeon@2.8GHz <mailto:8xXeon@2.8GHz>_
4GB
200 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
croanbane
SQL Server 2005 / 2008
Windows Server 2003 x86
_4xXeon@3GHz <mailto:4xXeon@3GHz>_
3GB
200 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
shannon
Sharepoint server
Windows Server 2003 x86
_4xXeon@2.7GHz <mailto:4xXeon@2.7GHz>_
2GB
70 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
bellmount
TeamFoundation server / SQL server
Windows Server 2003 x86
_2xXeon@3GHz <mailto:2xXeon@3GHz>_
2GB
150 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
kilcoole
SMTP gateway
Windows Server 2003 x86
_P3@647MHz <mailto:P3@647MHz>_
128 MB
25 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
delgany
Web (IIS) server
Windows Server 2003 x86
_2xXeon@3GHz <mailto:2xXeon@3GHz>_
3GB
100 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
ms-isa
Gateway server / ISA Firewall
Windows Server 2003 x86
_4xXeon@3.4GHz <mailto:4xXeon@3.4GHz>_
4GB
300 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
antrim
Application Server
Windows Server 2003 x86
_2xXeon@3Ghz <mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz>_
2GB
200 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
luas
HyperV host
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
_4xi5@2.7GHz <mailto:4xi5@2.7GHz>_
8GB
2TB
100 Mbps Ethernet
kudos
Application Server
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
_2xXeon@3Ghz <mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz>_
2GB
200 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
lee
Sharepoint server
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
_2xXeon@3Ghz <mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz>_
2GB
200 GB
100 Mbps Ethernet
Vancho,
You have about 4 TB worth of drives and if you are saving 1/2 of that,
your space needs are 2 TB + whatever scheme(retention, incremental, etc)
you plan use. I'd get a Coraid.com AOE storage machine with a minimal,
stable Linux server running bacula SD and DIR as the head - and about 4
GB of RAM. I'd populate it with enterprise drives no larger than 750 GB.
Why AOE ? - it is built-in into the Linux kernel and is simple, fast and
stable technology. It will handle RAID and their 15-bay will be
scalable. It has 3 PSUs for redundancy. It is fairly cheap and you can
use whichever enterprise drives you want.
Mehma
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