IT classroom

[lizart951]

Hi everyone,

A friend of mine is a school principal and he reach out to me for a advice .He needs 2 new computer studies classrooms for his school and the computer side is unclear for him and more precisely the hardware side.Now they use in both rooms a Fujitsu workstation with 10 core xeon (old one) an 32 gb ram and 4 TB storage on HDD’s hosting 10 VM’s and Windows server 2012.He told me the workstation is close to 10 years old.Programs pupils use are Scratch,Browser (i guess Chrome) ,MS Visual Studio/Code ,MS Office.And for the special studies they use :OpenShot,Audacity,Blender,Gimp and Inkscape .

The school hasn’t decided which direction to take.They have a blank slate to work with…i mean this :

Workstation/server with ups for every room runing vm’s like now or laptops for every kid or a PC 
*new networking too maybe (i need to ask him about it) 
They need something that can withstand the test of time and possibly can be upgraded down the road.

Im asking for your help because that’s to much for me to handle alone because the Workstation/server side is terra incognita for me .I need suggestions on what they can use.He told me the sooner i can give him information about the hardware the better.

[jaslion]

Refer them to a company that does this since you mentioned workstation/server is out of your depth.

 

This is something that needs proper implementation and is extremely easy to fuck up even for people that work with it a lot