Hello everyone!
I’m looking to set up Active Directory at home along with RHEL IDM, but I only have one available Dell R710 for this purpose. My plan is to install XCP-NG on the Dell R710, accompanied by a small VM running Xen Orchestra Community Edition for management. Additionally, I intend to create two main VMs: one with Windows Server for Active Directory and a second one with Linux running RHEL IDM.
My primary concern revolves around the CPU and whether it will be sufficient to run this setup. The Windows Server will also serve as the DHCP and DNS server for my network, which includes multiple VLANs.
I don’t know the specific needs for the programs you are going to run but 3.4ghz and 6 cores for each vm is a good amount of processing power. Ram is going to be your limiting factor. How much ram is the server configured with? Windows is going to want a decent chunk Linux is usually lightweight enough and just needs what the application will need.
I’m using a Dell r720 with 2x Xeon E5-2690 and 128gb ram. I am running xen community with a ton of Para virtualized Linux boxes, matrix, jellyfin, airsonic, next cloud, DNS, photoprism and more stuff and I’ve got a decent amount of CPU and ram overhead