We just went through that process. Our individual building servers were up for replacement so the question was do we replace them with more low end boxes or do we buy better boxes and house them at one location. We pulled everything back to the admin building. Let me give you one example of how awesome it is now.
We have one clustered NAS for home folders for the teachers and the students. With a little work on groups, access based enumeration and rearranging shared folders all the ELM student home folders are in one root folder. Same for Jr High and HS. Now when Johnny moves mid-year from one building to another we don't have to do a thing. Same thing with the teachers, when the annual summer migration from building to building occurs we fix up their distribution list membership and that is it, we are done. We don't move folders or accounts anymore. Life is much better, assuming you have the bandwidth between buildings. We have dedicated 100 MB fiber between them and it still runs just fine. In a few weeks we will have gig fiber between it all and life will be really good. ymmv -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...) Agreed, but I have the possibility of running lower-end servers at individual schools. It was just a thought. What I need to do is re-evaluate our servers as a whole. Thanks for the info. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
