[AusNOG] Server/HD Question

[Peter Brown]

Hi Skeeve,

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.
Hard drives are worth spending extra money on. They very much fall into the
"you get what you pay for" category.
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.
Hardware raid is preferred as well. I never trusted software raid.

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.
The 15k SAS disks make backups awesomely fast too.


On 14 February 2013 12:10, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> 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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