You can basically get rack mount level performance from:
Supermicro SuperWorkstation Tower Servers
Lenovo Thinkstation P Series Server Towers
HPE ML series Tower Servers
Dell Precision Tower Workstations
In your situation, I'd be looking at ebay, serversupply, or other used hardware resalers that offer 2 generations back hardware. Used DDR4 based systems are abundant and cheap enough, go that route.
Your use case sounds like something a nuc or sff from minisforum could handle, but if you want "cheap" and "small enterprise," both ambiguous terms, the supermicro superservers should fit the bill.
You're going to need to be more specific about your use case, because if you say "enterprise grade" I'm going to say "poweredge", and those are not at all small.
I know. I felt while writing the post that this feels wrong writing those words in same sentence.
The scenario is that we would deploy the hardware on customer premises so it has to be supported and very reliable(hence enterprise grade).
But i personally think that all enterprise grade hardware is way overkill for running ansible playbooks. So was trying to see if there is an intersection point between these opposite requirements.
Check out NetBox. It is a free open source datacenter inventory management and IP address management tool. It will let you catalog all of your physical assets along with the network assignments.
How would a country's tax department not have a backup system that can handle this? Surely they would know they are a prime target, and so have air-gapped backups in addition to an automated backup process?
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