<div dir="ltr">On 14 February 2013 13:06, Aaron Foote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@oo.com.au" target="_blank">aaron@oo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You should be fine with 7.5K drives, as long as the VM’s are not disk intensive, and have enough ram that they are not hammering the page file.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A server boot, with all the VM’s starting at once is probably the only occasion when you wished you had 15k drives.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>I can vouch for that being true.</div><div style>My vm's all auto start and everything comes up rather quickly.</div><div style><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">No suggestions on brands, but I like Western Digital.</span></p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I believe a lot of them get made in the same factory these days anyway...</div><div style> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Skeeve Stevens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 14 February 2013 1:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Server/HD Question<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Hey guys,<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I know a bit about operating servers, but know bugger all about the hardware, especially when it comes to hard drives.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am needing to deploy a server for some low performance VM's, and it has 32Gb ram, Dual core dual processor 3Ghz... so all good.  Should run a few linux VM's on ESX.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">But... hard drives I really don't know about.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
The chassis takes SAS drives.  In it are some small drives and I want to upgrade.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Will 7.5k speed drives be ok on a VMware server if its not for high performance processing?  The cost of 15k SAS drives still seem to be rather expensive.  I was hoping for 500Gb-600Gb of space.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts on which brand is ok... I will be putting a single drive in mirrored (only 2 bays).<br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>...Skeeve<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Skeeve Stevens - </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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