For ~20 users, I would suggest that the specs you have (2 x dual core CPUs, and 8GB of RAM) is more than sufficient. I don't know how many disk spindles you have (since you don't mention RAID or number of disks)
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SMB question.. Hello all. We are having an internal tech discussion and wanted to have some thoughts from others. The thoughts can be either opinion or reality. We have a handful of small clients, less than 50 users (50 is an average. The majority are under 20) that are currently running a single server that is acting as AD, file, print, IIS, DHCP, Internal DNS, and Exchange 2003 server on MS Windows 2003 standard server. From the books, I can agree that this may be pushing the hardware, if not sized correctly. The servers are all running qty 2 dual core processors, 4 to 8 GB of RAM, and over 500GB of available storage with all running. The internal conversation / discussion that we are having is that a single server cannot run all these items as it will lead to issues and error in the server. One of the guys, states that he feels that services such as server will become unstable. Is MS Windows SBS and option yet but not a reality.. Thoughts.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
