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