[TriLUG] TriLUG Server Refresh

[David Brain via TriLUG]

Hi,

2950's a decent box - we used to have a number of them at $work and
still have some being used for test boxes.  I wouldn't be afraid of
using the hardware RAID in the server - it's a PERC 6/i, and the
PERC's >= 5 are solid (i.e. I've not had one eat my data - cannot be
said for the PERC 3's), allow for a hot spare (which would be worth
looking at if you want to be able to not have to run out and fix any
dead drives quickly) and have fairly flexible config options.

I'd be a little wary of ESX/i free as they've added & removed various
limitations on the 'free' version (e.g 32GB for a server in I think
5.1) seemingly arbitrarily.  If VMs are something you want to do, KVM
might also be an option - I've not used it extensively but have it
running on my home 'server' with 3 or 4 VM's and it's worked as
expected. A 2950 with the right firmware maxes out at 64GB so that
might limit things a bit (still it's more mem than some of my
production servers...).


David.


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Igor Partola via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> May I suggest using ZFS instead of any type of RAID. From my research, it is currently the best way to store data on persistent drives. For the drive selection, check out the latest recommendations from the Backblaze blog.
>
> I am also partial to Ubuntu for their stellar distro, great package management, and timely releases.
>
> Igor
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