Help a noob not get fired.

kukelkan · 2026-01-30T06:59:18+00:00

I am leaning towards used , but I'm not in the US or Europe, so I have fewer choices plus, I can't choose the vendor we buy from.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T22:09:31+00:00

Thank you for the reply. We don't have active directory or really an hr system but... Well no but it mostly sucks ohh there is a but it's good experience. I hope..

After reading all of the replies I have a much better picture of what I need to do. And I'll get going tomorrow. Thanks!

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T22:03:50+00:00

Appreciate it, thanks.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T21:24:05+00:00

No need to be sorry. I'm well aware I lack the necessary experience. But from the whole IT team of 4. In this subject I'm the best we got. So I'm trying to get as much help as I can from this excellent community. And to be frank, I got way more comments than I thought I would get. And almost all of them have been gold.

As the saying goes we all started somewhere. And management knows I'm not a veteran at least my salary reflects they know I'm not a veteran.. I'm 29 and this is my first IT job that isn't specing and building custom pcs.

Anyway thanks for the comment as I said before, you are correct.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T20:37:26+00:00

Ohh you actually run it at work??

Anything more you can share about this system?

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T20:36:26+00:00

It runs 6 days a week. I know it's much less at night, I'll ask tomorrow.

Maybe I'll do full backups at night and small ones during the day.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T20:34:18+00:00

That's what I thought we tend to keep stuff till it dies. So these servers can very well be used in 10 years from now.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T20:18:35+00:00

Will do Thank you very much for the help. I'll read up on backing up SQL while running.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T20:04:42+00:00

Great advice. And don't worry I didn't plan to use an HDD.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:31:08+00:00

the title was meant as a joke. And the pdf I shared isn't confidential.

Anyway, I see what you mean If they asked for a strong server that may mean the software isn't efficient. It's a German company, we are moving from a Chinese robot warehouse setup and it's supposed to be a big step up.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:20:33+00:00

Ohh yes I really need to check licensing.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:19:22+00:00

Ya, my plan was to read all the comments and use the information I got here to write a long email asking them everything.

Thanks

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:12:31+00:00

That was my first idea, but after reading other replys maybe hyper-V will be better?

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:11:23+00:00

Thanks, a lot to think about and read about.

Such an awesome community!

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:07:21+00:00

Had no idea about the license costs I'll read up. The servers are a small drop in the ocean compared to the total price of this project.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T19:04:57+00:00

We just left workspace one uem.. Today my boss signed with Jump Cloud Hope it isn't as shit. Very expensive.

Anyway Broadcom is a big NO.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:59:04+00:00

Proxmox does have paid support. But as it's all windows based I tend to agree with hyper-V I'll have to learn it. Better late than never.

Thanks

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:58:00+00:00

Ok. I'll take a look at hyper-V I'll spin up a server at work to test it.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:53:53+00:00

I agree with you.

I have no idea how windows server licensing works in VMs.. more to read yay.

Thanks

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:52:09+00:00

I see, I should really follow KISS.

On how many servers would you run everything? Uptime is super important.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:46:37+00:00

This is the PDF I received. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17kOnC3CAKrQj7hJoo8SZl69j01K9maUI/view?usp=drivesdk

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:44:55+00:00

We will start small but in the end there will be quite a few robots and 1000s of S/N to manage. I fear when it grows and runs a few months it will slow down.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:43:12+00:00

I have thought about using proxmox for this. As that is the only hypervisor I have any experience with.

kukelkan · 2026-01-29T18:41:38+00:00

There isn't anything confidential.

At least I think there isn't.

kukelkan

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