setting up a n/w

[sandhya]

Hi all,

I am planning to set up a n/w at my work place.I need some suggestions as to how much the RAM, hard drive capacity should be, and the no of processors for a server that would be used by 10 users..

thanks,
sandhy

[Prometheus]

im going to assume n/w is network


What kind of server will you be running?

Website server?

Email?

Files?


if all of the above you may want 1024+ ram

Intel XEOn dual maybe

depends on a lot of variable tell us about your company


also post in the networking section next time

[vee_ess]

It all depends on the services that the system will provide to the clients. More details?

For 10 systems, you probably won't need a mid or high end server. The Xeons would probably be enough.

[james]

My office of 25-30 or so people has a server that does file depository, DNS, DHCP, NAT, email, VPN, ssh, and runs services for PCLaw, Amicus and several other obscure law programs and it is just a 1.4GHz Pentium (3 or 4), with 1Gig Ram, 80 Gig SCSI 10,000 RPM RAID5, with a cd-rom and floppy. Very basic, but it gets the job done and is never overworked. It's all a matter of the number of tasks the thing is running, and for what purposes.