Looking for server with both physical and virtual elements

It's still unclear what you hope to do with this new server.  It vaguely sounds as if you want to use it for remote desktop purposes, but I'm not even sure about that.

Perhaps if you start with the objective we can fill in the procedure.

Just purchase a new physical server, and convert all your existing servers to VMs.

What is your budget and do you favour Microsoft or VMware ? (or other!)

We'd deploy a small Intel Xeon E-2200 series server with 128GB ECC and an all SATA flash SSD setup in RAID 6 with enough storage to cover needs over the next five years of the solution set.

We would deploy:
 VM0: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
 VM1: Exchange
 VM2: RD Broker/Gateway/Web
 VM3: RD Session Host

Everything would be accessible via HTTPS RD Gateway and HTTPS Exchange for mail.

RemoteApps can be deployed to any device via RSS with users having access to their apps and data so long as they have an internet connection.

Need more, we can talk about it. :)

Hello,

The elements provided are not sufficient to give very good guidance on this subject.

Hosting your services in the cloud or on-premise depends on many factors

- Completeness of the data
- Completeness of security
- Completeness of availability
- budget
- etc.

At least:

One thing we should agree with is what you would like to manage at your level:

From the business services:

- Anuary
- Database
- Messaging / Communication
- User files
- Network Infrastructure

Once the decision is made, then you can have better advice.

For the question:

My manager does not like to be fully hosted, but it can not be done forever.

You should ask, What is your main interest?
Is the cloud hosting is it main product or just a center of secondary interest?

In this way, you will be able to make you an overall idea of ​​what will be his SLA. In addition, with the complexity of certain backup tools, it is now possible to switch from one cloud to another when we want or when they are no longer available. The main condition is not to use your cloud A to make all your backup. In addition you can do synchronization in addition to your backup, between two servers on two different clouds.

Also nowadays collocation and frequent and can be a solution for you.


Google:

What line of business are you in?
Given remote access is it a sales/external service  type of business

In the scenario you describe, your single point of failure would be your connection.

It seems more as though you are talking about resiliency.

Without a definition of what line and what your services are needed it is as others covered.

Look at established firms with cloud services where you can have a vps that ties into your local server to synch/consolidate data and function as an offsite/dr location.

Hi all,

Thanks for your feedback.

We are an IT company.

We are looking for a server with both physical and virtual elements that allows us to have our server and data accessible locally as well as in the cloud virtually.

A good example of this would be 2 disks that mirror each other so data is the same on both disks.

The local and virtual server and data would mirror each other and be the same data.

The reasons we would like to have the server physical as well as virtual is:

1. Reliable Accessibility:
    - Can access server physically even if internet connection is lost on our side
    - Can access server physically if internet goes down on cloud provider's side
    - In case of terrorist attack / hackers
    - Physical control over backup data
    - Complete control over who can access data
    - Data compliance
   
2. Faster Access
    - Quicker access to data with local network
    - In house data (direct access)
    - Robust system
    - Full data recovery is very time-consuming over Cloud and impactful on systems

What would you recommend as best solution for us?

Thanks,
Robbie

"A good example of this would be 2 disks that mirror each other so data is the same on both disks."
This is done all the time, for fault tolerance and/or disaster recovery.  Most modern cloud providers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle) will let you spin up a virtual server you can configure to synchronize data from a brick-and-mortar location.  Many enterprise-level applications (SQL Server, Exchange, etc) support clustering or mirroring natively.  For file-level replication, you may need a third-party product.  You would own the virtual server and could control access as you see fit.  You'll want to establish a VPN between your network and your cloud provider so replicated data can be transferred securely.  Create a list of specifications and call a cloud provider -  they all have people on staff specifically to help people in situations like yours.

Lastly,by definition, you would not be able to reach data stored on the Internet if you don't have Internet access, regardless of whether that loss is on your side or your cloud provider's side.