On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > Trust me on this, when you have vmware/hyper-v you will find yourself > standing up VM's > all the time for testing/application isolation and all sorts of things that > you just couldn't > do with a physical box*
Oh, I have no doubt about that. We use VMware on the desktop now for testing. My thinking was that we could start off with what we need now, plus a reasonable margin for growth. If we outgrow it somehow, we can add more then. Adding RAM is trivial. > My gut reaction is that something like a Dell R510 stuffed full of SAS > drives and > a good RAID controller, running in RAID10 would give you a hell of a lot of > grunt > for not a lot of money. So the thinking is that it's better to have a bunch of fast drives in a single big RAID 10 array, then. That was one of my original questions -- what's better, that, or dedicated mirrors of larger slower disks. I'll spec the R510 out, too. We just got a 19" rack for our server room. Heck, we just got a server room -- a few months ago, it was also my office! :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
