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From: high_desert <hidesert@cox.net
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To: PLUG Listserv <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:18:30 PM GMT-0500
Subject: [PLUG] Redux (help me design my server / Looking for a mini-PC)
I followed the two threads referenced in
the subject with interest.
Had a VMWare host at work, initially built
~3 years ago with 6 72(?) GB SCSI drives in a single hardware RAID5. Rebuilt
from scratch a few months ago by a more savvy guy - disks 0 and 1 in a mirror,
each of the other four drives solo. _Amazing_ performance gains, copying btwn
guests, guests not slowing each other's IO, now even the host's and guest's IO
is more separate and cleaner. We split functionality across drives, like if
guests A and B are gonna be talking or sync'ing they might go on disks 2 and 3;
even a single guest can be spread across drives for performance, like OS and
software one one drive, database on another.
Anyway, looking to set up a new, low
power, quiet, server at home. Need file and print (which I currently do from an
old laptop with an external USB drive) and want to run VMWare with like maybe
four simultaneous guests.
System76.com's
Eland
Pedestal for $1518
-
Operating System Ubuntu 7.04 Server Edition
- Processor - Intel Dual Core
Intel Xeon 3050 2.13 GHz 1066 MHz FSB 2 MB L2
- Memory 8 GB - 4 x 2 GB DDR2
667 MHz
- Storage Options 640 GB - 4 x 160 GB SATA 150 Mbps - 7200 RPM 8 MB
Buffer
- RAID Controller Software On-Board RAID Controller
- RAID Level no
RAID
- Optical Drive CD-RW / DVD-RW
- Hardware Warranty 3 Year Overnight
Parts Replacement Warranty and Standard Technical Support
Found this (Chad's post plus I heard 'bout
them from a PodCast or something). Figure to use the Ubuntu host as the F/P
server and VMWare server, maybe on two drives software mirrored. Then the other
two drives for VMWare guests. But how do you specify this drive config to them
when you order? Plus they don't seem to give any more specs anywhere on their
site - like what's the mobo, etc.?
- Zake