For ~100 people, I like Bob's answer. RAID 10 will get you lots of speed.
Perhaps RAID50 would be just fine for you as well and give your more space, but
without measuring, you won't be sure. Don't forget a hot spare (or two)!
Your MySQL database - will that generate a lot of IO?
Also, to ensur
Thank you both of you! I am going to look at these guides and begin tweaking as
soon as I have some hardware in. Users wise it will be less then 100 in the
immediate future however I am planning for expansion. Do you recommend using
Solaris 10 or opensolaris? I know that opensolaris is the break
Oh boy, there are a lot of things here :)
How many people in your office will be using these services? If it are just 50
people or so, you would probably be fine with just about any configuration. 500
or 5000 would be a different story, and you would have to be much more careful.
If possible, y
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Greg wrote:
a. a large raidz array or several raidz arrays
b. a hardware raid 10 array for exchange 2007 and then raidz arrays for
everything else.
c. several hardware raid 10 arrays
d. none of the above
I think that you will find that ZFS's equivalent of RAID 10
(load-s
Hey all,
I am working on a SAN server for my office and would like to know about
hardware recommendations. I am quite confused as to go the raidz route or a
standard raid route. As for what this will be doing, I will be having a vmware
esxi server connected via iscsi and it will be running multi
