I'm trying to plan a deployment of a physical SQL server. I have not deployed one before, so I'm hoping for some advice from you all. It will not be a virtual server. We'll be migrating our data from MySQL to this box.
I intend to buy a server that will be upgradeable. I'm thinking that we'll start out with one Zeon proc in a machine that can be upgraded to two proc's later on. 8GB of RAM to start, with the ability to go to at least 32GB. Lastly I'm thinking I want 1TB of SAS drives configured in a RAID 1+0 array.
For the software my understanding is that I'll need a license for Windows Server, a license for SQL Server, and 27 user CALs (we're a small outfit).
Thoughts?