My web developer sent me this a while back: http://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage.html
We're thinking of doing something similar in a new rack setup. Don't need that much storage, but a couple of RAID 6 servers with DRBD network RAID would provide quite a bit of redundancy.
On 8/24/2010 10:02 AM, Kevin Sullivan wrote:
What is everyone doing for VM storage? Kevin ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Matt Larsen - Lists <mailto:[email protected]> *To:* WISPA General List <mailto:[email protected]> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Unfortunately, these servers are going to be geographicallydispersed, and doing things that cannot really be virtualized. Three will be doing NAT/policy routing, three will be running ourbandwidth tracking software, three will be terminating VOIP and one will be a network monitoring server running Nagios/Xymon/etc etc. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 8/24/2010 8:17 AM, Rick Harnish wrote:I agree. When I last looked, we were on our third chassis running VMWare. The space savings and lower utility bills are well worth it. Rick *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Brad Belton *Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM *To:* 'WISPA General List' *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything. We purchased a Dell blade chassis and three blade servers to start with. Loaded VMware and have been blown away with the performance, availability, power savings and features. A "server" to us now amounts to just a file within VMware that we can copy, backup or move wherever we please with a simple cut & paste. If VMware "sees" a server go down or a host within your cluster fail it will automatically fire up the affected servers on a different host. Really cool stuff... The chassis will hold 16 blades, but just the three blades we have now are probably 100x the power of the two 42U cabinets stuffed with servers they replaced! Best, Brad *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Parr *Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers. All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? Buy a new Dell (or factory refurb) and virtualize everything. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List:[email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives:http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
