[AusNOG] Server/HD Question

[Jake Anderson]

+1 on muti core
I go with quad core processors then give guests a max of 3 CPU's
so if something goes insane everything should keep ticking along.

On 14/02/13 13:37, Peter Brown wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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