Hi everyone,
We are looking to free up space in our office by getting rid of our big server cabinet. In order to facilitate this, the plan is to virtualize our critical servers, Exchange and one domain controller at IT Services. We will then buy a Workstation
level PC with a Zeon processor, something like the Lenovo P300 to host several less critical and less performance intensive virtual machines. These will include a web server, file server for 25 or so users, VPN server, software license server, etc. For this
use case, is there any real reason to consider a low end server instead of a higher end workstation like the P300? It would seem the P300 would give us all the expandability and reliability we would need at a lower price point, and take up significantly less
space than most servers as well.
Thanks for any thoughts,
Al Puzzuoli
Information Technologist
Michigan State University,
Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, 120 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033
517-884-1915