hi everybody,
we are planning of setting up an OpenERP for our company. Actually at the same time we will be upgrading our fileserver. So both, filehosting (normal office documents, some photos) and OpenERP should be running from this machine. I am wondering about the Hardware requirements to do so successfully.
For ease of use we are tempted to purchase an NAS System. Synology seems to be the way to go as their OS officially supports OpenERP. We where considering something like Synolgy DS1512+ or RS812+ (sorry can't paste a link because my 'Karma points] (?) do not allow that yet)
I am considering this issue since a while and have noted a gap between what NAS machines normally offer in terms of RAM (the ones from above 1-3 GB) and what people who are more experiences than I advise me (that such kind of RAM would be way not enough).
What I don't get is ... almost all NAS Systems (not only Synology) in the range of small and medium businesses (which we are with 3-15 potential users) have such 'low' amounts of RAM. It seems that NAS producers and my advisers (who would be professionals in IT administration & hardware setup) have a totally different understanding of how much hardware power you need for running such services.
apart from the RAM the machines mentioned above seems quite powerful to me (2x Gigabit Ethernet for example doesn't look like toying around to me but as if you are serious)
So, who is in the right?
It almost seems as if IT professionals might be generally anti NAS in a way. Would they fear if everybody used NAS instead of a 'real' Server (that is a term I have heard more then once) the need of administrators would become more and more redundant? ... So NAS might be a natural enemy of any admin?
any comments on this are highly welcomed