Thanks Mark! I am definitely not opposed to looking into HP even if you might have a biased opinion. (I do think you have a valid opinion though especially since you use the hardware :-). That's enough for me to go HP considering you use them for Fossology. Definitely not a bad thing being biased! :-)
I did however want to know more about the storage recommendations. I did mention to our guy pricing this server that we should/could look at a RAID setup (I said preferably RAID10) for performance and redundancy. However I wasn't sure about how intensive it is on read/write operations although I'm guessing quite a bit since it keeps scanning and using the repo. I found that using a Git server for code repositories on Virtual servers is bad because of the constant reading/writing seeking that Git does it was better to have a dedicated server (not virtual) and possibly fast seeking storage (although your gaining performance by not opting for Virtualization servers in itself). I mentioned to him that RAID may be a nice to have and not a need to have since I didn't know if THAT would be our bottleneck for this dedicated single server. I also mentioned with RAID buying the additional Hard Drives would also increase the cost, which may be a determining factor in to RAID or not to RAID. I guess I'd have to propose if we need it or not and how much it benefits us/me. I do have a strong voice for recommendations on this because I will administer it and if I will need to backup/restore it then I will need to make sure I will be able to restore it correctly. In addition, he did state down-time isn't so critical for RAID-fault-tolerance because a 2-3-day restore is acceptable and this will not be a mission critical type system, but will need to fully recover with given time. Also budget for this is somewhere between $6 - $8K so not sure what the HP Blade servers cost. What other storage considerations would you or anyone else recommend? RAID or no RAID? Is the 1TB 7.2K RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives okay as opposed to some RAID config? -Regards, Gibran On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Mark Donohoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Furosh One wrote: > > Hey guys, Happy New Years to all you! > > I just wanted to ask for your recommendation on our fossology setup and > planning for this year. > > Currently we have the multi-fossology setup with 6 machines and it's > working great (thanks to all your hand-holding :-)!!! > > We have the setup in one of our lab benches and are trying to decide if we > should leave the existing setup in place, place it into production in the > server room, or purchase new hardware to consolidate the multi-setup into a > "single" faster Server-class rack-mountable machine. > > Our fossology project has gotten some really high-visibility with > management and they definitely see the need for it due to our code review > and Intellectual Property and Compliance guidelines. > > So my question is I currently have the 6 machines which consiste of (mostly > all): > (6) Machines - > (1) Server (DB, Web Server, Scheduler) > (5) Fossology Agents/Distributed Repos > > - Dual-Core (2) Intel 6400 2.13 Ghz CPUs > - 4 GB RAM (mainly 4 GB, except for 1 or 2) > - 150 GB SATA II 3.0 Hard Drives > > Considering getting (1) Rack-mountable DELL server with: > > - (2) Intel® Xeon® X5560, 2.8Ghz, 8M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1333MHz Max Mem > > (Each CPU is a Quad-Core (4) CPU, which should equate to having > (8) CPUs for our setup.) > > - 24 GB 1333MHz Memory for 2 processors > - 1TB 7.2K RPM SAS Hard Drive > - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 x64 Operating System > > So obviously this is a really nice server, almost a why would I be asking > or what's not to like question right? > > Well just wondering about anything that would absolutely NOT work like the > OS (we were using Ubuntu prior but RHEL 5 has better backup/restore > capabilities since we use Veritas Netbackup), or any bottlenecks compared to > the multi-setup we got right now. And we're obviously trying to save space > and go away from the 6 Tower machines we got. We're investing money into the > hardware but need to return the existing hardware back to IT for new > employees as well. > > So any feedback/suggestions/recommendations would be appreciated? > > -Regards, > Gibran Marquez > > Gibran, > > Thanks for the interest. I'm sure the Dell system is nice. Our project is > sponsored by HP, so I'm going to suggest an HP solution instead. Why? Not > because we work for HP. I believe that the HP is a better product and that > HP can provide better service IMHO. > > A comparable model would be a HP ProLiant BL460c G6, in a c3000 enclosure > (will fit up to 8 blades).( The dell has a little faster memory). I would > recommend a different disk setup. Use internal disks on the blades for the > OS, and apps, but get a storage raid and store the fossology data on that. > You can carve up the array so that each blade has a good chunk of the array. > > I'm not the best on the hardware, maybe Dan will chime in as he does all > the hardware for our project. Anyway both the BL and DL line of ProLiant > blades are nice products. > > The msa family is nice. I'm using one on my development cluster. > > > http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/msa_diskarrays/drive_enclosures/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN > > RedHat should work fine. We tend to run Debian (lenny) as we like the apt > set up much better than rpms. Yum isn't bad. We will be using a redhat set > up at some point as that's what a lot of folks use in business. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Mark Donohoe > OS&T, Cupertino CA.fossology.org > >
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