Adding a Server to Your Network.

Your client, CSM Tech Publishing, has been running Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition, which you installed about a year ago, and is using the Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, IIS, and File Services roles. The number of computer clients has grown from 25 to 40 in the past 6 months, and additional growth is expected. CSM Tech just purchased an expensive project management system to help manage project scheduling. This application has hefty memory (8 GB or more) and CPU requirements (recommended 3.0 GHz quad-core processor). All desktop computers will have the project management client application installed. The owner doesn't want to install the client application on mobile users' laptops, so a remote solution is needed for these laptops. The owner also mentions that he's familiar with this application and will need to sign in to the server periodically to do maintenance and monitoring.

The owner tells you that in the future, CSM Tech Publishing might need system fault tolerance to ensure that there's little or no downtime because this critical application will eventually be accessed at all times of the day and night. For now, he's just concerned about getting the system up and running. You check the existing server's capacity and determine that the new application's memory and disk requirements will likely exceed the existing server's 4 GB capabilities. The owner explains that there's enough budget for a new server, so you should plan for growth. As an aside, he mentions that because all his employees sign in at about the same time, the time it takes to sign in has been increasing. You need to come up with specifications for a new server. Describe some hardware features you plan to recommend for this new server, in particular the CPU architecture, number of CPUs, amount of RAM, and disk system. Explain your answers.

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