# Help finding server solutions

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/help-finding-server-solutions/50379>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/help-finding-server-solutions/50379 "2017-12-17T18:03:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![sarah\_klette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sarah\_klette](https://community.wowza.com/u/sarah_klette)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/help-finding-server-solutions/50379/1 "2017-12-17T18:03:20Z")

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I’m needing to buy the hardware to build a rack server, for 500 users, capacity for Hyperv in the future. Scalable to accomodate 30% growth within 3 years, up to 650 users, all licsensed windows server 2012 with CALs. Each user needs 5GB of HD space for storage. Initial budget is 40k including licsensing. But I can go over a little bit if it’s justified.

Can someone tell me the best products to get, I’m only in my second year of computer science and I’m a bit of a novice in the server world.

I need:

RAM

Motherboard to support virtualization

Video specs

HD specs

Type of interface for HDs

Network Interface type- thinking one single 10GB NIC?

Monitor/Keyboard/mouse

case type

OS

Licsensing solution for the 500, up to 650 users

any software i might need