8 x 500gb = 4tb, raw. RAID5 = 3.5 raw RAID6 or RAID5 + hot spare = 3tb raw Space dwindles quickly when reserving disks for failover/availability.
How many VMs? What apps running on them? It's certainly going to be a screaming machine, regardless - depending on type and how many procs are in it, though I'd consider upping the RAM to 128. Does it have a 10gb NIC? If the infrastructure supports it, I'd strongly consider that. Kurt On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:10 AM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > So I inherited this server , (sitting on site since February) low and behold > when I fire it up it turns out that whoever set it up used all 8 discs in a > raid 5 (granted they are only 500gb enterprise ssd's ) but still raid 5? and > no hot spare? > > > I'm trying to figure what the purpose of this server is/was, but aside from > a losing some space wouldn't a raid 6 and hot spare make MUCH more sense? > > > I'd like to move some of their VMs to it, as it is a brand spanking new r730 > with 96gb of ram > > > > > >
