I don't have much data at all so I am using two SATA disks in a mirror RAID. Probably 120 gigs? I know everything fits on an 80 gig drive.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Kevin Sullivan <kevin.sulli...@alyrica.net> wrote: > What is everyone doing for VM storage? > > Kevin > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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 <li...@manageisp.com> 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. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > ________________________________ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
