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Hardware Requirments / SSD Support?

Hello all

I’m planning to build a Home-Office ASG out of the following components:

Chassis Supermicro CSE-513L-260B (schwarz)
Mainboard Supermicro X7SPE-H-D525
2.5" Hard Drive Mounting Kit Supermicro CSE-PT73
Risercard Supermicro RSC-RR1U-E16
Memory Supermicro Kingston ValueRAM, 2 GB, DDR3-1066, CL7, SODIMM
Disc OCZ OCZ SSD Vertex 2 Extended Cap. 60GB, SATA-II, 2,5 Zoll, MLC
NIC HP HP NC7170 Dual Port PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter (available already)

Can anyone confirm that the above hardware would work for ASG V8.1 ?

Requirements for four (4) users would be (full program of):
- xDSL Access 20/2 Mb
- Firewall (40 Rules and 1 GB throughput)
- HTTP(S) Proxy, dual Virus scanning
- POP3 Proxy, dual Virus scanning (no SMTP Proxy)
- IDP
- VLAN Support
- Syslog logging
- SSL VPN
- Websecurity
- DMZ with Torent/Mule & Co.

In detail I would be very interested if anybody has some experience with SSD’s (reliability / long term performance / …). As far as I know ASG does support Trim as of V8 – right?

Please find below the product link to the SSD I would like to use:
OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD OCZ Technology
Thanks in advance for and comments, hints and thoughts….

Regards
Blm

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0 scottj_01 over 14 years ago

Hi William,

It was the powersupply fan that was making all of the noise. Although the BIOS allows for fan speed configuration the power supply fan was not included in the configuration. The result being that the Atom was down graded to a test server and I added the Lenovo in it's place. I am much happier with the Lenovo. When running on demand video, a couple of VPN sessions to work, and some web activity on one of the other boxes the Atom could not keep up with the load. This was exhibited by pixilated video. The upgrade fixed that issue. Although the Lenovo is over kill, I can run concurrent HD on demand video from all three TV's multiple VPN sessions and still have not saturated the available resources.

Regards,
Jim
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0 blm over 14 years ago in reply to scottj_01

Hi all

Thanks to all for replaying!

@William, I would require Gb Speed as I have multiple VLAN's (parents, kids, server,...) and I would like to have max performance from and to the server VLAN but still would like to benefit from a firewall in between. I don't care so much about the WAN performance - therefore the configuration should be sufficient.

Does anybody have experiance with Atom (D525, 1.8GHz) processors and firewalled LAN bandwidth (config and requirements see at the beginning of this thread)?

@scottj, the 1U case would be in a "server room" (basement). So I don't really care about noisy cases. Unfortunately I do care about power consumption and heat absorption (BTU's).

As I understand Astaro will introduce in Q2 2011 a new version 8.200 with lots of new features, allowing up to layer 7 deep packet inspection (NGFW). What are your thoughts in terms of performance with my below configuration and requirements?
Also, would SSD don’t bring any advantage for this new release? May someone next to Astaro could answer to this question as well?

Again any comments, hints and thoughts are very welcome….

Thanks in advance!

Regards Blm
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0 blm over 14 years ago in reply to scottj_01

Hi all

Thanks to all for replaying!

@William, I would require Gb Speed as I have multiple VLAN's (parents, kids, server,...) and I would like to have max performance from and to the server VLAN but still would like to benefit from a firewall in between. I don't care so much about the WAN performance - therefore the configuration should be sufficient.

Does anybody have experiance with Atom (D525, 1.8GHz) processors and firewalled LAN bandwidth (config and requirements see at the beginning of this thread)?

@scottj, the 1U case would be in a "server room" (basement). So I don't really care about noisy cases. Unfortunately I do care about power consumption and heat absorption (BTU's).

As I understand Astaro will introduce in Q2 2011 a new version 8.200 with lots of new features, allowing up to layer 7 deep packet inspection (NGFW). What are your thoughts in terms of performance with my below configuration and requirements?
Also, would SSD don’t bring any advantage for this new release? May someone next to Astaro could answer to this question as well?

Again any comments, hints and thoughts are very welcome….

Thanks in advance!

Regards Blm
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