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On 09/13/2013 09:00 PM, Grant wrote: |
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> It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: |
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> Dual Xeon E5-2690 |
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> 32GB RAM |
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> 4x SSD RAID10 |
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nice |
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> Can I count on this system to keep running if I lose an SSD? |
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if a built in raid controller, yes. one thing you might want to check is |
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linux tools for management -- you wouldn't want to reboot just go to go |
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into the raid tools and check if it requires a rebuild, and you want to |
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be able to schedule regular scrubs and maybe get a report. |
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you might also like to consider OOB management such as IPMI, dell and HP |
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do very lovely web based control panels that are independent of your |
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main o/s allowing you to get alerts when bad things happen, and |
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crucially watch reboot process from remote locations. |
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> Is a 100M uplink enough if this is my only system on the LAN? |
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gigabit NICs are pretty cheap i'd be surprised if any new machine didn't |
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have gigabit. i would suggest if you ever want to transfer data over |
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10GB across the network you should request gigabit |
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> Is hyperthreading worthwhile? |
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> Any opinions on Soft Layer? |
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> - Grant |
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are you putting this server in colocation at softlayer? if so OOB is a |
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requirement, and gigabit is not |