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We now get into choosing hardware for that shiny new gentoo-server ... |
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as mentioned this will be a KVM-host and we look at a HP Proliant DL385p |
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... 2 AMD Opteron 6344 ... 32 GB RAM, 8 disks (the customer has some |
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bigger contract with hp, so we are a bit biased to hp here). |
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For the server that runs the VMs right now we back then chose 2 smaller |
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SAS-disks for the OS (speed, expensive) and installed SLES on a mirror |
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built on those 2 disks. The other 8 (?) SATA-disks run in a RAID-6 ... |
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Now I ask myself if I want to do that again: |
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2 smaller disks, fast, RAID1 -> OS/ Gentoo (SSD? I think, no) |
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6 bigger disks, maybe 7200rpm, SATA -> RAID6 -> LVM -> space for VMs |
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(maybe straight LVs for the VM-disks ... performs well, nice backups) |
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Or should I go for all 8 disks in a RAID6 ... ? |
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I'd like to discuss that and hear your opinions and experiences. |
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Thanks! |
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