The Unofficial SBS Hardware Community survey ...aka "The Pizza box and Tower survey"

Please fill this out as follows:

I'm looking for information on not only the boxes you are spec-ing out now, but those you have installed in the field.  Please indicate how many of a certain kind of configuration you have so that we can "weight" the number of installed hardware.  I'll be sharing this info back with the community. Plese only fill this out for your Small Business Servers ONLY.

Please answer this for each "type" of server you install.. so say if you install Small servers, fill out the typical spec you use for small servers, then do a second one for larger server installs.  This also isn't a survey of what you'd spec out..this is what you have physically installed.  That "past year" and "past two years" should be in the field models that you've deployed.

Hardware Survey

When was this model recommended by you?

    Now?

    In the past year?

    In the past two years?

 

Basic Server machine: 

    Whitebox (you build your own boxes)

    Purchased without an OS from a major vendor (HP, Dell, IBM, etc)

    Purchased with an OS from a major vendor

   

If Major vendor, which one?

    HP

    Dell

    Gateway

    IBM

    Other (specify)

 

Model

    Please be specific

 

How many of this particular model do you have installed?

    Please specify number of servers you sold with this configuation?

 

Configuration

    Tower

    Rack

 

RAM (specify amount in GIG)

    so if 750meg put .7 for example

 

CPU - single or double processors

    You can even specify like Dual core Xeon

   

  

Type of CPU

    Intel

    AMD

   

Hard drives

    IDE

    SATA

    SCSI

    SAS

 

Size of drives? (gigabytes of storage)

    Operating disk size

    Data disk size

    Additional disk sizes (1)

    Additional disk sizes (2)

    Additional disk sizes (3)

    Additional  

If you can't describe it properly above, then use the text box below to describe your drive setup

 

Are you using RAID?

    Yes

    No

 

If yes, what?

    Software

    Hardware

    If Hardware what card? Specify brand, model

   

RAID configuration?

   

    Please indicate configuration ..for example RAID 1 (2x72)+ RAID 5 (3x72)

 

Do you provide Hotspares?

    Yes

    No

 

NICs

    One?

    Two?

    More?

 

    What speed?

        10

        100

        Gig

        All the same speed?

 

    Model of first nic?

        Intel

        Broadcom?

        Other? Specify please

 

    Model of second nic?

        Intel

        Broadcom?

        Other? Specify please

    Model of additional nics?

        Intel

        Broadcom?

        Other? Specify please

 

Video

    How much memory on the video card?

    Brand of card?

    Model?

 

Backup solution?

    Tape?

    USB drive?

    Online

    NAS

    Other?  Specify type of solution.

 

Number of Monitors?

    None (KMS switch)

    None (headless - RDP only)

    One

    Two

    Three (and you have Flight sim loaded up on your SBS box and your XboxLive gamertag is?)

 

Cards to get to boot access?

    HP Ilo card?

    Dell Drac?

    Other?

    What's a boot card?

 

NAS attached storage?

    Yes

    No

 

Okay here comes the religious wars:

    How do you partition? Describe your partition plan:

   

 

What's the size of your C: drive?

    (in Gigs)

 

OS most configured?

    Standard

    Premium with SQL only

    Premium with SQL and ISA

    Premium with ISA

 

Do you set up networks with separate hardware firewall?

    Yes

    No

 

Do you always include a UPS in your server solution?

    Yes

    No

 

Service pack level

    RTM (original no service packs)

    SP1 (either via installing after RTM or bought with SP1)

    R2

    Windows 2003 SP2 now on the system

 

Have you set up a virtualized SBS?

    Yes for fun

    Yes for real for a client

    No

 

Did you have issues installing Windows 2003 SP2

    No, absolutely perfect install, no issues.

    Haven't done it yet

    Yes. 

    The issue I hit was:

   

    What's a service pack?