I can tell you from experience running an open bravo server you will want all the hardware performance you can get. Go hardware raid. On Oct 20, 2011 12:49 PM, "Preston Hagar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Diego Xirinachs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Again, thanks all for the input, > > Michael, great information! just to be clear, I meant RAID 1 not 0 > (little > > typo there). I currently have RAID 1 software raid on a samba server I > > mantain. I think Im going to use the same type for this server (only that > > with hardware RAID) because of the easy troubleshooting in case of > failure > > (just replace RAID card and thats it). > > Also, I was wondering if you can provide the Dell mailist list subscribe > > link? or where can I find it? > > > > > > We have mainly Dell hardware and used their hardware RAID (PERC cards) > for a while, but have been trying to phase them out in favor of Linux > or FreeBSD software RAID for a while now. We never saw significant > performance gains (as another poster said, it is often other things > like network that are the bottleneck) and the management was much more > difficult with the PERC cards. > > As a simple test, if you can before you go into production, setup your > RAID array in your hardware card, then pull a drive out while the > system is running. Then try to go through the steps to get it back > fully on line. Do the same with a software RAID machine. We always > found software RAID to be much easier. With most of Dell stuff, it > often unofficially supports Ubuntu, but officially they typically only > support Red Hat enterprise and Suse enterprise. It will probably work > on Ubuntu, but we have found that, even with the extra paid support > contracts, unless you are running a version of Linux they like, with > their servers, their controller cards, and even their drives, > purchased from them with their firmware, they won't really support you > and will blame it on whatever they can. > > We have had many problems with PERC-based hardware arrays not > rebuilding, complaining about drives not matching (even though they > do) or other oddities. With software RAID, you can throw just about > anything at it and it will make the disks work. > > If you are working for a large organization with hundreds to thousands > of Dell servers, I could see going with their hardware RAID. If you > have a handful of servers (say less than 15 or so), then I would stick > with Software RAID. You will get much more support from the community > and Wikis than you will from Dell when things go wrong and it will be > much easier to deal with when you have a drive failure and you need to > replace it. > > just my 2 cents. > > Preston > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam >
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