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Small Enterprise Server Toshaan Bharvani - Trilands bvba General Small Enterprise Server overview Comparison Technical setup Operating Toshaan Bharvani - Trilands bvba system User Management < toshaan@trilands.be > File &

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Operating system User Management File & Print services Web hosting Email solution Document Management CRM Solution External connections Virtualization

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Small Enterprise Server

Comparison Toshaan Bharvani - Trilands bvba <toshaan@trilands.be>

Linux Konferenca 2009

28 September 2009

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Table of contents

1

General overview

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Technical setup Operating system User Management File & Print services Web hosting Email solution Document Management CRM Solution External connections Virtualization

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Business case License Setup Maintenace

4

Conclusion

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Conclusion The End

1 General overview

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Introduction

Server software solution

All-in-one Easy to install Easy to manage

Client integration :

Be able to support all clients User friendlyness Single sign on

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Target size

Small & Medium Enterprise size :

1-3 users (free) 3-20 users (standard) 20-75 users (professional) 75 users and upwards (enterprise)

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Software Architecture table

Operating System : Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, . . . ) User Management : OpenLDAP MTA : Sendmail (Postfix) Collaboration/MDA : Zarafa Web Server : Apache Application Server : Tomcat Document Management : Alfresco CRM : SugarCRM File & Print Server : Samba (NFS) & CUPS FTP Server : vsFTP (ProFTPd) Remote connection : OpenVPN Firewall : iptables

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2 Technical setup

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Operating system

Linux : Enterprise version

CentOS Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Ubuntu LTS SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) (Debian)

Comprehensive software packages Long livespan (API/ABI) Security & Stability

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User management

Central user / identity management LDAP standard (X.500 standard)

OpenLDAP Redhat Directory Server (CentOS / Fedora) Sun Directory Server Apache Directory Server Microsoft Active Directory

Contains user information Contains identity of user

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File & Print services

Samba File Server

File server for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Unix, . . . Full file server

CUPS Print Server

CUPS print server Samba connector for integration into Windows and Mac

NFS

Shared filesystem for Linux/Unix clients

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Web hosting

Apache web server

Most used web server Modules to extend more functionality Web programming / scripting languages

php, Perl, python, . . .

Tomcat Application server

Java Application server Integration with Apache

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Email solution

MTA : Sendmail / Postfix

Secure email server Integration with LDAP (central user mangement)

MDA : Zarafa

Support for : MAPI, POP, IMAP, CalDAV Outlook integration through MAPI MAPI is a standard, but not open Zarafa Webaccess is similar to know user-(un)friendliness MySQL backend MTA frontend required (Sendmail)

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Document Management

Alfresco Enterprise Content Management

Document management with Sharepoint support Content management system Integration with LDAP for central user management Integration with Outlook, Zarafa Webaccess Requires : MySQL (PostgreSQL), Java JDK, Tomcat Other competition open and closed

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CRM Solution

SugarCRM

Most used Customer Relationship Management software Important to business Integration with LDAP for user management Integration with Zarafa through Z-Merge Integration with Outlook and Zarafa Webaccess Requires MySQL, php

Other packages are bulky and big

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External connections

OpenVPN

Connect to the internal network Secure through encryption Full access as on the internal network

Proxy

Private connection over internet Secure connection for getting to internal system Limited to what is predefined

Port forwarding

Connection to internal port over SSH or Proxy Limited to one port per connection

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Virtualization

XenSource Xen kernel (provided by distribution) KVM integrated into kernel (provided by distribution) OpenVZ addition possible VMware ESX(i) VirtualBox

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3 Business case

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Assumptions

Small enterprise of 20 people Internet connection with fixed IP Domain name with external DNS management Routing function Server hardware identical for all software setup Clients are already functional with Microsoft Office (incl Outlook)

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License

Microsoft Small Business Server

Server System license fee Server Client license fee (CAL) Client Software license fee

IBM Lotus Foundation

Server System license fee Server Client license fee Client Software included with client license

Small Enterprise Server

CHOICE (is confusing for some)

Server System license Server Client license Client Software license

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License Fee Overview

MS Windows SBS Standard IBM Lotus Founda- tion RHEL Zarafa Professional CentOS Zarafa Profesional Server license

550 euro (incl 5 CAL) 221 euro 279 euro 0 euro

Client license

1350 euro (15 CAL) 3024 euro (21 CAL) 560 euro 560 euro

Total

1850 euro 3245 euro 838 euro 560 euro

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Setup

Linux Consultant is more expensive Linux distribtions takes less time to install Additional software is available through single software tool (yum, apt, . . . ) Average Linux system administrators know something about Windows (not true in reverse)

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Setup Costs Overview

MS Windows SBS Standard IBM Lotus Founda- tion RHEL Zarafa Pro- fessional CentOS Zarafa Professional Time

6 hours 2 hours 5 hours 5 hours

Price/ hour

50 euro 150 euro 100 euro 100 euro

Total

300 euro 300 euro 500 euro 500 euro

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Maintenance

Server Software lifespan

Microsoft : 3-5 years IBM : customer based Enterprise Linux : 5-7 years

Downtime

Linux : 0.5% more uptime 180 euro per month saving with Linux Price of loss of image/business ?

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4 Conclusion

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The bottom line

MS Windows SBS Standard IBM Lotus Founda- tion RHEL Zarafa Pro- fessional CentOS Zarafa Professional License

1850 euro 3245 euro 838 euro 560 euro

Setup

300 euro 300 euro 500 euro 500 euro

Total

2150 euro 3545 euro 1338 euro 1060 euro

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Conclution

Cheaper Better Faster = ⇒ More possibilities available

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The End

Hvala

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