Spec me a mac pro server

JGBR · 15 Apr 2011 at 15:58

Well is it better to force all net traffic through the server or let the cisco kit do it

Fireskull · 15 Apr 2011 at 16:02

I would let the Cisco kit do it personally, another thing the server does not have to think about.

JGBR · 15 Apr 2011 at 16:09

Well we have a cisco router, cisco hardware firewall and switch, so just leave all the machines on that one switch?

So this comes back to the first point, how many servers or one to do the lot etc if DHCP/DNS no longer a workload

bigredshark · 16 Apr 2011 at 16:42

JGBR said:
Well we have a cisco router, cisco hardware firewall and switch, so just leave all the machines on that one switch?

So this comes back to the first point, how many servers or one to do the lot etc if DHCP/DNS no longer a workload

They weren't a workload to start with, you could run them on a PII without breaking a sweat. One server is all you need unless you have some fancy file sharing or backup requirements, or you want an exchange server in house, or you want a database to run on it.

JGBR · 17 Apr 2011 at 10:31

Well I might outsource or have a seperate windows server for exchange, which lightens the load for the OSX Server.

I guess i could further ligthen the load, if the Cisco Hardware is doing all the routing, DHCP - on that note to people feel its wiser to shunt all internet data through the server, or just plug it all equal into the cisco switch?

This then asks how powerful the server should be if just doing mac users,backup, wiki server etc.

JGBR · 19 Apr 2011 at 21:34

SPEC THIS

One of the mac pro servers will deal with the daily running of a very intensive, media and web oriented user osx user enviroment

the secondary server will be used as a big backup "data centre" which will be heavily encrypted

The third mac pro will not be server but i was looking for suggestions on spec. (It will be doing everything from video editing, to website design/virtualisation)