Little Cai server's DIY experience

Cai is the network manager of Enterprise A's information center. The information center is very competent and has A wide range of transactions, so many things have fallen into Cai's head. It is common to lay the ground and stay up late to debug machines, so the boss said that the work place cannot be a family of women! Therefore, over the years, November 11 is the legal holiday of the information center.

Xiao Cai also has a bunch of valuable servers in the enterprise. These servers are placed in a specific machine room and run several so-called key applications. Usually the door is locked, and the boss is holding the key. Other small and medium-sized applications, such as the official enterprise website, email server, and file server, are put out. Many departments want to get a server because of their work needs. If they have money, they can buy brand servers directly. The service and after-sales services are quite good. If they have no money, we need to carry forward the DIY spirit as we do.

After a period of time, I learned a little about the server DIY Portal:

1. Make a budget before DIY servers. Calculate the cost first. If you have a plan, you can combine the actual situation to prepare your satisfied server. Now we can check the prices of most of the accessories online. Even if you can't buy the cheapest accessories in the local area, it's not bad.

2. It is recommended that you purchase server accessories locally. Do not renew the service in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, or other major regions as much as possible. It is mainly for the convenience of after-sales service, and the price may be slightly more expensive than the above area, but it is better to purchase locally in the long term. Generally, the server CPU and motherboard are intel-based, with excellent quality and good performance. However, this reduces the chance of failure and avoids waste. For example, Xeon5500/Xeon5600/Xeon E3 processor and Intel S5500BC motherboard are all well-known for Server Installation players. If it is to be sent to the IDC data center in the future, it is best to choose 1U for the first purchase of the chassis. The data center is charged by U. Ultra-micro chassis is also better, 1U to 5U with full. Hard Disks are naturally Seagate and Western Digital enterprise hard disks.

3. Find a good DIY server installer. One time I encountered such a problem when I assigned a server to a unit. I didn't have an installation shop dedicated to servers in the local area. The people who sent the server came to a PC, the guy who said that he could install the server came to a technical manager. As a result, he knew nothing about the server. The configuration was what we said, and the price was what he called, in this way, the price and installation quality are overwhelmed. According to Cai, baotong is China's largest DIY installer and Intel's largest server distributor in China. It provides national server DIY services in many branches and partner installers.

4. The configuration does not need to be too high. Many people who do not know much about the server are strongly tuning up the configuration, while those who have used the server value stability. One of the major reasons for DIY is that to save costs, you can first configure an ordinary server trainer, and then configure high-end as needed when there is a budget and the network administrator is relatively familiar. Therefore, from low-grade single-channel Xeon3400 \ XeonE1200, dual-channel Xeon 5500 \ Xeon5600 can be used. The hard disk space is about-GB. People with a little experience will understand that bandwidth, CPU, and memory are real key indicators. We recommend that you perform dual disk backup on the hard disk. Raid-1 is recommended, that is, one-to-one backup. Two hard disks are used for synchronization from time to time. Even if one disk is broken, the other disk can guarantee the work, the hard disk has a price and data is priceless.

Xiao Cai suggested that the server should be copied for several days to check the software and hardware compatibility, rather than rush to the server room for mounting. After all, as a well-known technology-based network management system, it can cope with some common situations. When using the organization's network management system, don't count on the issue.