Using Cisco UCS C210 M1

[afrugone]

I have an offer with a huge discount for 2 x Cisco UCS C210 M1 with:
2 x Intel Xeon X5550
4 x 8GB DDR3-1333MHz
1 x MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
8 x 500GB SATA 7.2K (for VMs)
2 x 73GB 6G SAS 15K (for OS)

I'd like to configure the two servers in a DRBD HA cluster to support the following

Services:
Windows 2008 + IIS WEB SERVER (1000 CONCURRENT USERS)
WINDOWS 2008 + MS SQL SERVER
WINDOWS 2008 DOMAIN CONTROLER (200 users)
WINDOWS 2008 + EXCHANGE + BACKUP DC
WINDOWS 2000 + BACKUP EXCHANGE
LAMP SERVER (various small services)

Any coments or recommendations are wellcome, could this servers compatible with Proxmox VE?

Thanks for your comments

 

[martin]

I have an offer with a huge discount for 2 x Cisco UCS C210 M1 with:
2 x Intel Xeon X5550
4 x 8GB DDR3-1333MHz
1 x MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
8 x 500GB SATA 7.2K (for VMs)
2 x 73GB 6G SAS 15K (for OS)

I'd like to configure the two servers in a DRBD HA cluster to support the following

Services:
Windows 2008 + IIS WEB SERVER (1000 CONCURRENT USERS)
WINDOWS 2008 + MS SQL SERVER
WINDOWS 2008 DOMAIN CONTROLER (200 users)
WINDOWS 2008 + EXCHANGE + BACKUP DC
WINDOWS 2000 + BACKUP EXCHANGE
LAMP SERVER (various small services)

Any coments or recommendations are wellcome, could this servers compatible with Proxmox VE?

Thanks for your comments

I never tested such a server here in the testlab but if the server is compatible with Redhat 5.4 you will have a good chance with our 2.6.18 Kernel.

Also, as it looks like you run KVM only , you can think of using the 2.6.32 Kernel branch. See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_Kernel

 

[afrugone]

Thanks for your comments, do you think this hardware is OK to support these services.

Thanks
Alfredo

 

[tom]

Thanks for your comments, do you think this hardware is OK to support these services.

Thanks
Alfredo

This is more or less impossible to say as 1000 concurrent users can produce extremely high load or not - depends on the application and usage scenarios.

I would recommend to replace in any case the low performance disks with standard SAS drives (10k or 15k) - I mean the (8 x 500GB SATA 7.2K (for VMs))