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RE: [PLUG] Redux (help me design my server / Looking for a mini-PC)
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Actually, should have stated this, but my
intension is to use the guests for labs - testing and trying stuff for training
and certs. Maybe for Internet facing servers, in which case if a disk goes bad I
just re-create the virtual(s) from backup (external USB). For a "production"
Guest, give it an hda1 and an hdb1 on two different Host physical spindles and
then software mirror it?
well, you could do the install, clone it, then
configure everything to the way you like..when you finish, you clone it again.
that way you don't have redundancy, but still have a backup that you can pop
right in.
granted, you'd have to make sure you were comfortable with not
making any changes to the server, and if it crashed you'd not have access to
logs...
but hey! small price to pay!
(i'm being facetious, of
course)
On 9/15/07, W. Chris
Shank <shankwc@acetechgroup.com >
wrote:
I've thought about keeping the disks seperate - but I think I'd rather
have some redundancy for a small performance hit. Running a disk solo for a
majorly important server doesn't sit well with me.
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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
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