[Samba] System Requirements for Samba?

[Peter Milesson]

Hi Rob,

CentOS 7.9 is essentially dead, and Debian with Xen do install lots of 
packages, and the Xen version is lagging quite a bit. But the space 
requirement it's not that terrible. You don't need the graphics, just 
the basic Debian installation (incl. sshd) + Xen server packages.

Otherwise, try Arch, it's a smoking gun, very in the forefront, (too) 
well documented, with very a very good user forum. The installation is 
quite a bit manual, so you need to know what you're doing. You just 
install what's needed. There is also Citrix XenServer for maxium 
comfort. It offers GUI tools under Windows for managing VMs. The 
drawback is, there are a lot of parameters you cannot set in the non 
paid version.

An alternativ is KVM, which also installs quite a lot of stuff. But 
that's another beast. I have no knowledge about that one.

Best regards,

Peter

On 30.01.2023 5:25, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  Which distro did you run on your host?  Debian
> installs a lot of packages I won't be needing on the host so I was
> wondering is there a lighter distro to install as the host?
>
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> In all things, Be Intentional.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 1:54 PM Peter Milesson via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 29.01.2023 19:08, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
>>> This was my reference
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_System_Requirements
>>>
>>> I need to rebuild my system due to package corruptions and
>> unintentionally
>>> "upgrading" to sid from bullseye, I figured I'd take this time to do
>> things
>>> right.  Although this is only for home personal use, everyone keeps
>> saying
>>> that I shouldn't run my file server on my DC so I want to build a minimal
>>> server to host 2 vms, one for the DC and the other for the file server.
>>>
>>> I have an old FX-6300 with 32Gb RAM.  Is that enough to run 3 servers, 1
>>> host and 2 vms for home use only? I have separated partitions but I have
>>> also segregated data.  My data for my file server is spanned over 2
>> drives
>>> and / and /home is on another [currently].  I suspect I will add the data
>>> as storage to the file server vm along with a portion of the other drive
>>> for / and /home and the DC will only have / and /home.  If Debian
>>> requirements is 10GB HD and 2GB RAM, how much more is needed for Samba DC
>>> and how much more is needed for Samba file server?
>>>
>>> *Debian System Requirements*
>>>
>>>      - Minimum RAM: 512MB.
>>>      - Recommended RAM: 2GB.
>>>      - Hard Drive Space: 10 GB.
>>>      - Minimum 1GHz Pentium processor.
>>>
>>> Oct 19, 2021
>>>
>>> A Fresh Installation of Debian 11 Bullseye - Tecmint
>>> <https://www.tecmint.com/debian-installation-guide/>
>>>
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>>> In all things, Be Intentional.
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> I scrapped my FX-6300 with 16GB of RAM a little more than a year ago.
>> Basically, it was a virtualization server running Xen (CentOS 7.9), and
>> then I had a few VMs permanently running: mail server with Postfix and
>> Dovecot (Slackware based), Samba AD-DC based on Debian Buster, Samba
>> file server (2TB storage), also based on Debian Buster, Windows 10
>> (light development for barcode equipment). There were still a few Gbytes
>> of RAM free for a Linux Slackware VM, or a Windows XP x64 installation.
>>
>> So, with your 32 GB of RAM, no problem really. But since I replaced that
>> rig with a new one (AMD Ryzen 7 5700G), I have been saving about 20% on
>> my electricity bills. My home server is running round the clock, and the
>> FX-6300 is quite power hungry.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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