[AusNOG] Server/HD Question

[Aaron Foote]

You should be fine with 7.5K drives, as long as the VM's are not disk intensive, and have enough ram that they are not hammering the page file.

A server boot, with all the VM's starting at once is probably the only occasion when you wished you had 15k drives.

No suggestions on brands, but I like Western Digital.



From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 1:11 PM
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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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