You lush! On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]> wrote:
> I play on 5 different teams now, I could easily add some more!! > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote: > >> There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why are you trying to ruin my retirement? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> I thought we'd disabused you of the notion that you need a [high >>>> end] SAN? >>>> >>>> Granted the high end ones are nice and they have their uses, but your >>>> just looking to store files on it. Are you going to virtualize all your >>>> servers, rely on Vmotion or some other tool to ensure high availability, or >>>> do you need to provide data access to a large number of disparate servers? >>>> Consider looking at some of the lower end offerings from Synology and Qnap >>>> (heard good things), and avoid Drobo (heard not so good things) and stay >>>> away from Buffalo (don't touch that, it's pure evil). >>>> >>>> This "project" has been on your dockett for over a year now, hasn't it? >>>> Awaiting funding? The Synology and Qnap offerings are pretty affordable, >>>> and get you into iSCSI access realm. Also, whatever happened to your >>>> project about setting up your own storage server? With Windows Server 2008 >>>> R2 having access to the iSCSI target software MS recently released, that >>>> becomes an option now, too. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Aldrich < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yeah.... I was keeping that in mind... Very good points to consider, >>>>> too. >>>>> :-) Mostly just going to be storing stuff that is primarily used for >>>>> reference and things like that. At least that's how we're using our >>>>> file >>>>> server now. Very little "writing" going on, but a lot of "reading" of >>>>> files. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing >>>>> a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you had a SQL or >>>>> intensive ERP app etc. >>>>> >>>>> It isn't black and white IMO. Buy a SAN like an Equallogic and all >>>>> your >>>>> disks are in one big RAID set. Buy a dumber SAN like an MD3000i and >>>>> you >>>>> can have as few or as many RAID sets as your physical disks support, >>>>> buy >>>>> a P4000 and your nodes give you redundancy as does your RAID level, so >>>>> you see what I mean, it isn't a one size fits all thing really. >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: 08 April 2011 17:42 >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> Well, I don't think we'll have a whole lot of IOPS, unless / until I >>>>> bring email in-house, in which case I might just have it on it's own >>>>> dedicated server with plenty of disk space on-board and back that up to >>>>> the SAN. :-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:24 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> You need to weigh up price vs. performance needs vs. risk tolerance. >>>>> >>>>> RAID6 is fantastic for data reliability, but if your workload is write >>>>> intensive you're pretty screwed if you go with RAID6. >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: 08 April 2011 17:13 >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> Would you prefer RAID6 or RAID10? Practically, what would you accept -- >>>>> RAID 5, RAID 6, what? Just trying to think ahead for when I have a >>>>> chance to order a SAN. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:06 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> Our new servers are ordered that way. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> IF your controller supports it, ADG (RAID6) is even better than RAID5 + >>>>> spare, IMO. >>>>> >>>>> -sc >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:43 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here >>>>> that >>>>> I have two hotspares in my servers. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> John Hornbuckle >>>>> MIS Department >>>>> Taylor County School District >>>>> www.taylor.k12.fl.us >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> No hot spare. >>>>> John W. Cook >>>>> Systems Administrator >>>>> Partnership for Strong Families >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011 >>>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> >>>>> If you don't have a hot spare then NO! >>>>> >>>>> If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the >>>>> previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any >>>>> rebuilds with the drive you already replaced... >>>>> >>>>> I'd recommend against it. >>>>> >>>>> -sc >>>>> >>>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>>> > From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM >>>>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> > Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>>> > >>>>> > So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely >>>>> failed and >>>>> > another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I >>>>> replaced >>>>> > the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has >>>>> an >>>>> > opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the >>>>> other >>>>> > one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really >>>>> don't want to >>>>> > drive back out here just to swap a drive out. >>>>> > John W. 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