This was my reference https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_System_Requirements I need to rebuild my system due to package corruptions and unintentionally "upgrading" to sid from bullseye, I figured I'd take this time to do things right. Although this is only for home personal use, everyone keeps saying that I shouldn't run my file server on my DC so I want to build a minimal server to host 2 vms, one for the DC and the other for the file server. I have an old FX-6300 with 32Gb RAM. Is that enough to run 3 servers, 1 host and 2 vms for home use only? I have separated partitions but I have also segregated data. My data for my file server is spanned over 2 drives and / and /home is on another [currently]. I suspect I will add the data as storage to the file server vm along with a portion of the other drive for / and /home and the DC will only have / and /home. If Debian requirements is 10GB HD and 2GB RAM, how much more is needed for Samba DC and how much more is needed for Samba file server? *Debian System Requirements* - Minimum RAM: 512MB. - Recommended RAM: 2GB. - Hard Drive Space: 10 GB. - Minimum 1GHz Pentium processor. Oct 19, 2021 A Fresh Installation of Debian 11 Bullseye - Tecmint <https://www.tecmint.com/debian-installation-guide/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In all things, Be Intentional.
On 29.01.2023 19:08, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:> This was my reference > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_System_Requirements > > I need to rebuild my system due to package corruptions and unintentionally > "upgrading" to sid from bullseye, I figured I'd take this time to do things > right. Although this is only for home personal use, everyone keeps saying > that I shouldn't run my file server on my DC so I want to build a minimal > server to host 2 vms, one for the DC and the other for the file server. > > I have an old FX-6300 with 32Gb RAM. Is that enough to run 3 servers, 1 > host and 2 vms for home use only? I have separated partitions but I have > also segregated data. My data for my file server is spanned over 2 drives > and / and /home is on another [currently]. I suspect I will add the data > as storage to the file server vm along with a portion of the other drive > for / and /home and the DC will only have / and /home. If Debian > requirements is 10GB HD and 2GB RAM, how much more is needed for Samba DC > and how much more is needed for Samba file server? > > *Debian System Requirements* > > - Minimum RAM: 512MB. > - Recommended RAM: 2GB. > - Hard Drive Space: 10 GB. > - Minimum 1GHz Pentium processor. > > Oct 19, 2021 > > A Fresh Installation of Debian 11 Bullseye - Tecmint > <https://www.tecmint.com/debian-installation-guide/> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > In all things, Be Intentional.Hi Rob, I scrapped my FX-6300 with 16GB of RAM a little more than a year ago. Basically, it was a virtualization server running Xen (CentOS 7.9), and then I had a few VMs permanently running: mail server with Postfix and Dovecot (Slackware based), Samba AD-DC based on Debian Buster, Samba file server (2TB storage), also based on Debian Buster, Windows 10 (light development for barcode equipment). There were still a few Gbytes of RAM free for a Linux Slackware VM, or a Windows XP x64 installation. So, with your 32 GB of RAM, no problem really. But since I replaced that rig with a new one (AMD Ryzen 7 5700G), I have been saving about 20% on my electricity bills. My home server is running round the clock, and the FX-6300 is quite power hungry. HTH. Peter
29.01.2023 21:08, Rob Campbell via samba ?????:> *Debian System Requirements* > > - Minimum RAM: 512MB. > - Recommended RAM: 2GB. > - Hard Drive Space: 10 GB. > - Minimum 1GHz Pentium processor.Hmm. # time cdebootstrap --flavour minimal --include samba,linux-image-amd64 bullseye bullseye ... real 0m28.124s user 0m24.136s sys 0m3.426s # du -hs bullseye/ 636M bullseye/ This is a minimal system with no room for, say, kernel updates and samba logs, but this is about it.. :) /mjt
On 1/29/23 19:08, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:> I have an old FX-6300 with 32Gb RAM. Is that enough to run 3 servers, 1 > host and 2 vms for home use only?I bet so. FWIW (and knowing this is not an answer to your questions) a customer of mine, with a very small office, has a Pentium G4400 with 4GiB of RAM, running FreeBSD with (among other things) one jail for DC and one jail for fileserver. I've been telling him he need to change that hardware for several years, but, while suboptimal, it works. bye av.