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What is a good solution for failover when all I have is 2 physical servers?

I have 2 physical servers, each with 32GB RAM and 2 quad core procs. Each will run VMWare, 4 VMs each, one DB, 1 app server, 1 task queue server, and one general purpose server. One will run my web application. The other will constantly replicate…
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HP DL385 Base System Device

I have an HP DL385 with two Operon 280 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM running Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit. Windows device manager show a yellow question mark for the Base System Device. This device is the ILO card, however everything seems to be working…
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Dedicated database server or local database server for performance

We have a dedicated server that contains 3 virtual server with iis 7.5 on it. There are 50 real ip addresses pointing to the server, with some of them assigned to the virtual servers. I wasn't sure how to setup, especially where to install the…
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What is the best IP/Subnet set up strategy for a multi-server webhosting setup?

Sorry for the mixed-up title, but let me try to explain better: We run a hosting solution, which until now has supported shared hosting and VPSes. Easy enough. We are now getting larger clients which require a more complex setup. We have more or…
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When is it appropriate for a server to handle multiple functions and when should servers be dedicated to a single task?

I have one fairly powerful server running VMware ESXi to allow for multiple virtual machines to handle different purposes. Currently I have 7 set up: PHP Development PHP Staging RoR Development RoR Staging ASP.Net Development ASP.Net Staging Core…
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Setting up new cloud server

Complete server noob trying to setup a new cloud server account here. I've only dealt with shared-hosting accounts in the past, so I don't have much experience as a network admin setting up servers. What I want to achieve: I have 2 domain names:…
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Dell r710 idrac6 is not visible/reachable on network

I got a (new) r710 server, and tried setting up idrac6, i reset to default and changed the ipv4 settings to an ip in my network, i also tried dhcp, i set up a root password, and still there will be no idrac on my network, no web interface, and even…
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How to size compute/gpu/storage/network for generative AI or LLM?

I would like to provision compute (servers), gpus (say 2 A100 80GB or H100), storage and network (may be 100GbE) to run OpenApaca 7B (https://huggingface.co/openlm-research/open_llama_7b) model. How do I go about sizing this? AWS/GCP cluster sizing…
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How to proper dns zone config for selfhosted email server

Looking to harden the sending authentication of my email server, I am looking for some usefull hints on the topic. As I have in total 4 Vps Servers where emails will be send from, registration confirmation, password resets etc... aswell multiple…
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What's the best practice for setting up new servers?

I'm facing the problem that from time to time, when installing a new system, be it virtual machines in VMWare, be it new VDS of the customer's server, I have to constantly install the same packages (Nginx, firewalld, htop, python), make the same…
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clone a grafana setup to a different server

I'm writing a set of scripts to automatically setup any virgin ubuntu server to be in a state usable for my production environment. One of the things I want to do is setup grafana so that, on install, it has already added prometheus as a datasource,…
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HP Proliant DL580 G5 Server Initial Setup

I am a beginner so please bear that in mind if you choose to answer the question. I have a HP Proliant Dl580 G5 with the following specs : 4x Six-Core XEON 2.4GHz E7450 128GB RAM 4x 72GB SAS 15K I was wondering how i can go about installing or…
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Servers, cloud and network

I need so help so I have few questions. I work in small company and we are going to be buying one or two servers for our needs. We are in area that isn't well equip with internet (only ADSL or WiMAX) so we want our own network that isn't relying on…
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Use 1 executable file to be distributed accross 100 client PROS and CONS guys?

for easy updates of our internal system I'm planning to use just 1 exe located at the server and just put a shortcut in my clients pointed at the exe in the server. PROS and CONS guys? Server 2008 R2 and W7 as client
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Best practice for setting up a small fileserver for my group?

My R&D group are setting up our network and development environment. We have a dedicated 'kitchen sink' server machine, running Using Kubuntu 12.04 LTS as the distribution. which is going to run all sorts of services, one of which will be a file…
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