[Freeipa-users] freeipa harware appliance

[Ainsworth, Thomas]

You could buy a couple of NUC's (or equivalent) with a SSD (or not) and run
a replica.  Extremely small footprint.  IPA itself is light weight; that is
part of the beauty of it.



On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Karl Forner <karl.forner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Martin.
> My expected numbers: users ~ 50 max, concurrent clients/sessions < 20,
> hosts < 20.
> I was thinking about a server with an old intel cpu, 4Gb RAM and smal HDD
> or USB key-based storage + an ethernet port.
> I have no idea if it is a common use in IT to run such (critical)
> application on its own dedicated appliance.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Martin Basti <mbasti at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 20.11.2015 16:47, Karl Forner wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Could you recommend me a mini appliance/server to use as a freeIPA server
>> ?
>> I guess the main points are an ethernet port, minimal consumption,
>> robustness.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Karl Forner
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would say that minimal amount of RAM is 2GB with IPA 4.2, of course
>> amount of resources depends on many things.
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/Preparing_for_an_IPA_Installation-Hardware_Requirements.html
>>
>> Disk space at least 500MB for basic installation + baseOS + stored data
>>
>> I do not know if IPA is limited by a CPU in somehow, but with very slow
>> CPU you may need to increase timeouts (I saw the posts on this lists that
>> it is possible to run IPA on raspberry pi with increased timeouts)
>>
>> Maybe would be better if you write what do you need this minimal
>> configuration for and how many clients, users and connections should IPA
>> handle.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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