<div dir="ltr">Hi Skeeve,<div><br></div><div style>I tend to prefer the Segate enterprise drives in servers when I can get them but I am biased. Some people don't like Segate but I have never had a problem with them so I stick with them.</div>
<div style>Hard drives are worth spending extra money on. They very much fall into the "you get what you pay for" category. </div><div style>I also tend towards more cores for a virtualisation setup so there are cores lying around for the hypervisor when it needs to do things.</div>
<div style>Hardware raid is preferred as well. I never trusted software raid.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I have an old dell poweredge 2900 here with 2 quad core xeons, 24Gig of ram, two raid arrays of 15k hot swappable sas disks (one with 2 63Gig and one with 6 450Gig drives) I use CentOS and kvm to run 7+ vms on it and it trucks along nicely.</div>
<div style>The 15k SAS disks make backups awesomely fast too.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2013 12:10, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey guys,<div><br></div><div>I know a bit about operating servers, but know bugger all about the hardware, especially when it comes to hard drives.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But... hard drives I really don't know about.</div><div><br></div><div>The chassis takes SAS drives. In it are some small drives and I want to upgrade.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any thoughts on which brand is ok... I will be putting a single drive in mirrored (only 2 bays).<br clear="all"><div><div><br>...Skeeve</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div>
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