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Re: [PLUG] help me design my server
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You better make sure you have a room that can keep all this operating
at a reasonable temperature like 40 C especially with SCSI. Also,
supply enough protected power.
Sorry people I'm missing PACS but I just woke up. Was crashed out with the Siamese kitties (Baxter & Seth) and they just woke me up. Yeah, I know I'm lame but I was very comfortable curled up with them. I'll be spending the rest of the day doing 801.11 testing/hacking and some password cracking with John the Ripper Pro for MAC OSX
Brian
From: Mag Gam [mailto:magawake@gmail.com]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:16:58 -0400
Subject: Re: [PLUG] help me design my server
Chris:
We have faced the same issues with virtualization with IBM hardware. My advice is get plenty of I/O paths (fiber adapters), and make sure the storage end is setup properly. Try to create each vm image on a separate disk and assign it a separate adapter if possible.
On 9/14/07, Toby DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:50:34AM -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I need to spec-out and architect another VMWare and/or Xen VM host server. Currently I have one with 8 cores, 4GB ram, and 1.5TB HDD as 4 500GB SATA with hardware raid5. We are starting to hit the wall with this setup running 5 VMs on it. Particularly, it seems the HDD I/O is the bottleneck. If one VM hits the disks hard it makes the others pretty much useless.
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> So I have a budget to get another honking server. I'm confident the quad-core Xeons with the vm extensions are sufficient. I'll go ahead and bump the RAM to 16G too. The area I'm most concerned with is the disk I/O. I'm thinking that instead of one big RAID5, I'll pair smaller drives - so i'll have 4 sets of 2 250G SATA mirrors. Then direct it so that 2-3 VMs are on each raid. Or should I go SCSI and keep one large RAID5?
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> So if you had the $$, what would you get and how would you configure it.
Amazon works around this problem by giving each Xen instance a disk on its
own spindle. This may not work for you, but I'm just putting it out
there...
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Toby DiPasquale
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