[AusNOG] Server/HD Question

[Chris Scholfield]

Hi Steve,

 

We're running a HP ML370 with an 8 bay caddy, 4x 300GB SAS and 4x 500GB
SATA, RAID 5 of each matching drive set. The SATA are 7500RPM, need to check
the SAS.

 

We're running SQL server's on the SAS RAID for the performance, and running
(among other things) an intranet web server serving 300 people on the SATA.

 

The web server has been going fine for that amount of people.

 

Hope it helps,

 

Chris Scholfield.

 

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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 1:11 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Server/HD Question

 

Hey guys,

 

I know a bit about operating servers, but know bugger all about the
hardware, especially when it comes to hard drives.

 

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.

 

But... hard drives I really don't know about.

 

The chassis takes SAS drives.  In it are some small drives and I want to
upgrade.

 

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.

 

Any thoughts on which brand is ok... I will be putting a single drive in
mirrored (only 2 bays).



...Skeeve

 

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