Hello everyone!

I’m looking to set up Active Directory at home along with RHEL IDM, but I only have one available Dell R710 for this purpose. My plan is to install XCP-NG on the Dell R710, accompanied by a small VM running Xen Orchestra Community Edition for management. Additionally, I intend to create two main VMs: one with Windows Server for Active Directory and a second one with Linux running RHEL IDM.

My primary concern revolves around the CPU and whether it will be sufficient to run this setup. The Windows Server will also serve as the DHCP and DNS server for my network, which includes multiple VLANs.

  • aodhsishaj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m running proxmox on that same machine with a 9 node k8s cluster serving zabbix, zammad, coreDNS, three Grav sites and it’s also the SAN for my Longhorn implementation as It’s got a 10gig sfp+ card in it. Powerdraw sits at around 630 watts on average. It’s in a corosync cluster with an R720xd and my old gaming PC.

    It’s got plenty of room for you to grow if electricity is cheap, they make great ISCSI servers and also baremetal DBs if you outgrow it completely.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For home use (=1-2 concurrent users at most) you can run ad server + DNS + DHCP on an atom d510 with 1 gb of ram (need an override command to install win server core with 1 gb of RAM), dual xeons even if a decade old it’s overkill

    Or samba 4 ad on rpi 1 with 256mb ram

    • kylian0087@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Didnt know these services where that light. So running the domain controller and rhel IDM controller in a VM on the R710 is fine then. I can probably even run a few other things on the system as well then. Thanks for your input!

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        not sure about rhel idm, never personally tried, but for my home (3 users at most) for AD i’m using win server core in a vm with just 1 assigned core and just 1 gb ram, no issues with dns

        before i was using samba 4 and it was even more lightweight

  • epyon22@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know the specific needs for the programs you are going to run but 3.4ghz and 6 cores for each vm is a good amount of processing power. Ram is going to be your limiting factor. How much ram is the server configured with? Windows is going to want a decent chunk Linux is usually lightweight enough and just needs what the application will need.

    I’m using a Dell r720 with 2x Xeon E5-2690 and 128gb ram. I am running xen community with a ton of Para virtualized Linux boxes, matrix, jellyfin, airsonic, next cloud, DNS, photoprism and more stuff and I’ve got a decent amount of CPU and ram overhead

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    SAN Storage Area Network
    k8s Kubernetes container management package

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