Re: Planning a new storage solution
Phatsta wrote: Okay so what I've found is that if you ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different opinions. Of course it all varies depending on how you've built these scenarios and worked with them before....
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Re: Planning a new storage solution
Yes, you might be right. Thanks for sharing your views, it's always good to question every view before making a descision. Now, to air the views I've heard on the pro-external storage from others;To...
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And by the way, another pro-external reason that I just thought of the other day... With local RAID arrays (LUN's) there's no way that I've found to report the status of the array automatically, should...
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Phatsta wrote:To run 12 simultanious guests you need either 1 high-end server in the range of 6k, 2 middleclass in the range of 2k or 3 low-end in the 1k range. Running 12 guests on a single host...
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Re: Planning a new storage solution
Phatsta wrote: And by the way, another pro-external reason that I just thought of the other day... With local RAID arrays (LUN's) there's no way that I've found to report the status of the array...
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The things you undeniably need to review are: VMware's HCLDisk quality (no magical software will make SATA disks enterprise grade)
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Re: Planning a new storage solution
Phatsta wrote: And by the way, another pro-external reason that I just thought of the other day... With local RAID arrays (LUN's) there's no way that I've found to report the status of the array...
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This is not really true. SAS is for IOPS and SATA is for capacity and linear reads and writes. So any software turning random I/O into sequential I/O and doing some sort of the overprovisioning can do...
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> Running 12 guests on a single host isn't going to put you in the high-end server range. That's pretty run-of-the-mill consolidation. Like I said, I'm not even sure how much a DL360 can handle. At...
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Okay, that's new to me. I googled crazy for solutions at one time but came up empty. I'll have to try again, obviously I haven't taken any fancy courses in vmware, I've taught myself through trial and...
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I'm with you on this one. My general opinion is that (as long as we're talking enterprise disks) SATA drives are enough for most functions. Only databases and similar functions with high demand IOPS...
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Phatsta wrote: > Running 12 guests on a single host isn't going to put you in the high-end server range. That's pretty run-of-the-mill consolidation. Like I said, I'm not even sure how much a DL360...
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Phatsta wrote:And you can do a lot to up the performance of SATA drives. Faster disks and better disk controllers for one thing. What RAID level you go with is another. There's a huge difference in a...
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Yes, I know some from performance logs I've gathered, but I didn't mean for this discussion to dig that deep, as to analyze everything down to IOPS. Maybe I didn't phrase my question correctly. I was...
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Phatsta wrote: Yes, I know some from performance logs I've gathered, but I didn't mean for this discussion to dig that deep, as to analyze everything down to IOPS. Maybe I didn't phrase my question...
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