[AusNOG] Server/HD Question

[Peter Brown]

On 14 February 2013 13:06, Aaron Foote <aaron at oo.com.au> wrote:

> 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.*
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> A server boot, with all the VM’s starting at once is probably the only
> occasion when you wished you had 15k drives.
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I can vouch for that being true.
My vm's all auto start and everything comes up rather quickly.


> No suggestions on brands, but I like Western Digital.
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I believe a lot of them get made in the same factory these days anyway...


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> *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****
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> I know a bit about operating servers, but know bugger all about the
> hardware, especially when it comes to hard drives.****
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> 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.****
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> But... hard drives I really don't know about.****
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> The chassis takes SAS drives.  In it are some small drives and I want to
> upgrade.****
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> 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.****
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> Any thoughts on which brand is ok... I will be putting a single drive in
> mirrored (only 2 bays).
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> ...Skeeve****
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