Server build for a small business - primarly a vm host

[imort]

Sorry for interrupting you all guys

Can you please tell me, does anyone using a XenServer anymore, or it's more dead than alive now?

Just got a job where I can find two of servers with XenServer 6 on them.
Have a little experience with them but seems like we only have VMWare and KVM over the field now.

Should I receive them as a hard legacy or plan to migrate off them to something else?

P.S. They're not even in a failover domain... hardware incompatibility, shame on me...

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I'm interested to hear what kind of performance you get running VM's off the NAS. I would think it would be terrible compared to SSD direct attached on your VM host.

Well of course it would be. But this can work well enough, if you have a suitably beefy NAS.

The advantages of centralized storage generally outweigh the speed hit you take from not having DAS on each host.

 

[Gunbuster]

The advantages of centralized storage generally outweigh the speed hit you take from not having DAS on each host.

I can see that on a SAN but a NAS does not generally have the same redundancy. All your eggs in a slower basket centralizing the point of failure is not the centralized I would go with.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I can see that on a SAN but a NAS does not generally have the same redundancy. All your eggs in a slower basket centralizing the point of failure is not the centralized I would go with.

Depends on the NAS, doesn't it?

Plenty of SANs have single points of failure too (switches, etc.). Money, money, money, money, money.

A NAS, by and large, doesn't have to be any slower than a SAN either. (I've benchmarked iSCSI vs. NFS datastores on the vmware cluster at work and it's pretty much a wash if it's running on the same hardware.)

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Hi, Think of a server as a computer that runs services that users access in order to fulfill a need. When building a server, you match the services that you want to run, with the amount of users that will use these services in order to spec out the hardware required to support those services for the amount of users that will use it.

This was worth a 6 month bump? Really?

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

This was worth a 6 month bump? Really?

I think it is a SPAMBOT or something.

The post seems to be an almost identical copy from here:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-build-a-server-system-for-a-small-business