Installing Windows Server 2003 on AMD environment

Question

Our organisation we have 25 computers and we are trying to setup Windows Server 2003. We are planning to configure

• Active Directory
• NAT
• DNS server
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
• Subversion (SVN)
• Trac (Bug tracking tool)
• FTP server

And our Hardware configuration is

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual (Core processor 5600+, 2.60 GHz)
• Asus motherboard (M2N series)
• Transcend 4 GB RAM (800 MHz)
• 500 GB Hard Disk (RAID enabled)

But my colleague is advising me AMD won't suite for servers platforms, and use Intel environment. Also they telling we can't install all the services to one server.
I got confusion what to do?... Is really can`t install above services to AMD computer?

Thanks...

Answer 1

brotharewt is correct, it is best to split into 2 servers, domain services and applications if money permits.

As for AMD over Intel, if the CPU's are comparable there is no real difference on Servers.

Workstations and the apps that run on them can make a difference, but, not servers.

HTH

Answer 2

Although you can install of your apps on the same server and have it work (have it work meaning not explode on install). A better course of action would be to keep your active directory and other server functions (DNS, DHCP etc) separate from your applications. Get yourself another server and have a DC for server functions and an application server. As for AMD vs. Intel, its a matter of preference.