Server has Write caching enabled, as well as Dell puts in batteries on the
Raid as well just in case. Thanks for the input everyone, if anyone else
wants to chime in, i'd welcome it.
-BenN
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote:
I’ve got 3 HP/Compaq boxes
I've got 3 HP/Compaq boxes running hyper-v.
Raid 1 for the OS, and raid 5 for the vms. As long as the write caching
is enabled, performance has be pretty good.
If that write caching is not on, pretty dog slow.
From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:52 PM
RAID10 will get you fantastic perf. RAID5 write perf across that many drives is
going to be a bit rough.
I'd just bite the bullet on the hot spare, personally. Dell's going to get you
the new drive in 4-12 hours depending on your contract, right?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
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I would do R10 with 2 groups of 4 and leave 2 drives for hotspares if needed.
R5 sucks for this application...
From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Server raid config ponderings
I have a new Dell R710, with 10
How much space do you need? Preferably you'd configure a RAID 1 for the OS,
a hot spare, which would leave you with a 7 Drive RAID 5 config, or 1.8TB of
raw space (usable space will be slightly lower, probably around
260-270GB/drive).
- Sean
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Ben N
Using a Dell 2950 with a RAID 1 for the 2008 system and RAID 5 (4 or 5
drives) total space about 1TB. It had 2 Quad core processors and 32GB of
RAM. I had the system up running only Hyper-V and 6 VMs all on the RAID 5
with few issues attributable to hardware. The VMs were AV, SQL, AD,
