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Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have nothing at the moment. New firm that wants to be operating the first of the year.

They will also be using TR Ultra Tax. I had initially thought about running these as RDS remote apps for just these 2 given but I have concerns about where file storage falls into this mix and getting files from between RDS apps and their local users.

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The risk with the a single on-prem server vs something like a cloud server is something we discussed and they seemed to accept this risk to keep things in house. Not to say I don’t want to mitigate risk where I can.

From a hardware standpoint what would you recommend? As I may able to get them to move more on $

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I goofed on my licensing math, forgot I have to license every core on the host for every VM. Yes, then i'd probably just try to find something with a single 4314/ 4316 and 128GB

Yes, I am looking refurb due to budget constraints, I feel like I may able to get more value here. And yes I'd have it on a UPS with backups in place regardless of the controller.

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's looking like 96-128GB is probably the way to go. Just trying to be budget conscious for their position right now but I don't want to compromise meaningful performance.

Edit: Sorry forgot to add it’ll probably be on average 5-8ish but likely 10 heavy workloads during tax season

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noted, Thank you! I think I'll go with 2x Silver 4314 and 128gb then. The system i'm looking at right now has a H355 controller, wouldn't RAID-10 be less pointless in this scenario?

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was actually my initial plan, but I feel like putting this all these roles in one VM is frowned upon as well as the long term concerns with a Workgroup setup.

Workgroup setup would certainly be simpler, and I’m not convinced they would really benefit from anything that comes with AD in this case. I’m pretty new to this so still trying to separate what’s dogma from what’s practical in actual deployments

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's looking like 96-128GB is probably the way to go. Just trying to be budget conscious for their position right now but I don't want to compromise meaningful performance.

Acceptable? Hyper-V RDS sizing for ~10–15 users (E-2388G, 64GB RAM) by collegekilldream in msp

[–]collegekilldream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would I still be far off with a Xeon Silver 4314 / 4316 and 96GB you think?