What is everyone doing for VM storage?
Kevin
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From: Matt Larsen - Lists
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?
Unfortunately, these servers are going to be geographically dispersed, and
doing things that cannot really be virtualized. Three will be doing
NAT/policy routing, three will be running our bandwidth tracking software,
three will be terminating VOIP and one will be a network monitoring server
running Nagios/Xymon/etc etc.
Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com
On 8/24/2010 8:17 AM, Rick Harnish wrote:
I agree. When I last looked, we were on our third chassis running VMWare.
The space savings and lower utility bills are well worth it.
Rick
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Brad Belton
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?
Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but
we had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything.
We purchased a Dell blade chassis and three blade servers to start with.
Loaded VMware and have been blown away with the performance, availability,
power savings and features. A "server" to us now amounts to just a file within
VMware that we can copy, backup or move wherever we please with a simple cut &
paste. If VMware "sees" a server go down or a host within your cluster fail it
will automatically fire up the affected servers on a different host. Really
cool stuff.
The chassis will hold 16 blades, but just the three blades we have now are
probably 100x the power of the two 42U cabinets stuffed with servers they
replaced!
Best,
Brad
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Parr
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?
On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers. All will be
running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are
preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations?
Buy a new Dell (or factory refurb) and virtualize everything.
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