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is a dell R710 with 2x x5690 enough for my use case? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know that it would be worth the power usage. If it’s all you got, then it’s overkill in my opinion, but should work fine. If you are buying, x30 poweredges are getting cheaper, their precision towers in that gen and above would work, and would be more powerful using less power. E5-v4 processors are also getting cheaper, which you can throw into most of the x30 poweredges. And they run ddr4 ram.

But if the 710 is what you got, then it should accomplish what you are looking at doing just fine in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

luckily power wise is a non issue in my case. I can always migrate to a newer system down the road. but I have to start with it on something. so the R710 it is for the time being. Thanks for your input!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The room you run it in WILL get hot, make sure it’s adequately ventilated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This. While great in winter it's not so fun in summer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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