Hello folks, A friend and I are taking first steps into the world of sysops/sysadmin, specific to Linux. We are total newbs and after digesting some info/videos online, today, we set a goal to set up a basic small business type environment- dhcp, dns, ldap, email, intranet, shared storage and backup mechanism for everything and try to plug in a free amazon AWS server somewhere. With school and life we may have set the bar too high, we'll see. This will all be on VMs via Virtualbox on Windows 8.1 btw. To add, we're working seperately, we're not following the same guides/docs or mirroring each others methods but every day we will discuss the work done so far to see each others progress, discuss issues, help each other if need.
So end of day 1- basic progress made, as to be expected there were some differences in our methodology;
- I have essentially deployed 1 service to 1 vm.
- His setup is mostly multi service to 1 vm. Dhcp, dns and ldap on 1 vm, intranet and shared storage on 1 vm, then email on 1 vm.
- I went with single standard partition, ext4 just one mount point, local storage on all servers, then working on a SAN/NAS to use network volumes(?) for important data like dbs or configs specific to the service on respective server.
- He went with LVM setup for all his servers local drive and will setup network storage only for email and intranet data.
I know they're many ways to skin a cat an orange but wondering, in the use case mentioned above, real world, is there is some consensus or best practice for the situations bulleted above? From an experience point of view is one method more sensible that the other?
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