[Samba] hardware sizing and configuration

[David Bear]

Thanks. this is helpful. I was considering putting all file storage on an
iscsi device, and using a dedicated NIC to communicate between the FS and
the iscsi hardware. We already have the iscsi hardware.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Daniel Carrasco Marín <
danielmadrid19 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2015-05-12 21:50 GMT+02:00 David Bear <dwbear75 at gmail.com>:
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>> Understanding that a samba 4.x ADDC should be run on a an os separate
>> than a samba 4. file server, I was thinking of virtualizing both. Is it
>> common to have a single physcial server with two VM's running samba?
>>
>> If some is there a recommendation on how much hardware to start with and
>> how much virtual hardware to give each VM. I'm wondering about virtual nics
>> and if there may be a problems have multiple vm's accessing the network
>> through a single physcial nic.
>>
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> I've about 7 VM in same server with 6 using the same nic and there is no
> problem, you only have to keep in mind the hardware requirements and nic
> bandwith. About hardware, I've a fs on a separate physical machine with 4GB
> RAM (3GB cached) , an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz and a RAID10.
> About the VM recomendations, i've the AD on a Debian 7 VM with 386MB RAM,
> 15GB of HDD space, 512MB of swap and 2 VCPUs. 1GB of Swap is recommended
> (I've to change my server swap).
>
> You need a good drive performance for FS then i don't know if is a good
> idea to use a VM drive instead physical drives. Maybe you can use the VM as
> domain and the physical machine as FS.
>
> Greetings!!
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>> This is an ADDC and file server for a small office so numbers of users
>> will be below 50. Any recommendations?
>>
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