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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">+1 on muti core<br>
I go with quad core processors then give guests a max of 3 CPU's<br>
so if something goes insane everything should keep ticking along.<br>
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On 14/02/13 13:37, Peter Brown wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Skeeve,
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2013 12:10, Skeeve
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<div>I know a bit about operating servers, but know bugger
all about the hardware, especially when it comes to hard
drives.</div>
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<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>
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<div>But... hard drives I really don't know about.</div>
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<div>The chassis takes SAS drives. In it are some small
drives and I want to upgrade.</div>
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<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>
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<div>Any thoughts on which brand is ok... I will be putting
a single drive in mirrored (only 2 bays).<br clear="all">
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...Skeeve</div>
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