Hi,
I've come here rather than servers and enterprise as this is for my homelab.
I'm looking at splitting out my primary domain controller on Server 2012 R2 from my Xenserver host and put it directly on baremetal. Ideally it will need built in gpu so I do not lose any pci-e slots. I'm not sure if I need mATX or smaller but realistically it will require some pci-e slots, a x8 (can be x4 at worse) slot for my SAS card (this server will also host all my HDDs using t-raid), possibly x1 slot for a wifi card (server 2012 can act as a wireless access point). I can obviously lose the wifi card if necessary as I do have another wireless access point in my router.
The main thing I need is low power usage. This server will be running 24/7 as it will do DHCP, DNS and be the primary domain controller so the lower the better.
What sort of cpu/motherboard might be appropriate? An AMD APU? Unlike enterprise class domain controllers this one does not need to be powerful as it is only serving my home systems.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Chris
I've come here rather than servers and enterprise as this is for my homelab.
I'm looking at splitting out my primary domain controller on Server 2012 R2 from my Xenserver host and put it directly on baremetal. Ideally it will need built in gpu so I do not lose any pci-e slots. I'm not sure if I need mATX or smaller but realistically it will require some pci-e slots, a x8 (can be x4 at worse) slot for my SAS card (this server will also host all my HDDs using t-raid), possibly x1 slot for a wifi card (server 2012 can act as a wireless access point). I can obviously lose the wifi card if necessary as I do have another wireless access point in my router.
The main thing I need is low power usage. This server will be running 24/7 as it will do DHCP, DNS and be the primary domain controller so the lower the better.
What sort of cpu/motherboard might be appropriate? An AMD APU? Unlike enterprise class domain controllers this one does not need to be powerful as it is only serving my home systems.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Chris