Storage Box

[Butuz]

yes all my member servers would go down....

 

I have made SMT aware that a single 7110 would be a single point of failure and given a cost option for dual mirrored. At the end of the day it's up to them - they hold the purse strings, they decide how valuable uptime / data protection is. Should have a decision tomorrow.

 

At the worst, I'll be sure to regularly take copies of the VM images onto another box, will also be doing normal backup exec 11 backups of the VMs for now. Ultimately I would put a wager on the 7110 being more reliable when set up with raid 6 than any of my current local storage.

 

Our biggest and most likely single point of failure currently is actually the air con. If that goes down the server room will gain approx 20 degrees within an hour - and all servers will shut down to protect themselves = whole network down.

 

Butuz

Edited May 12, 2009 by Butuz

[teejay]

Worth speccing an environmental monitor in your solution then! If you are on APC UPS's you can get the SNMP management card with an environmental monitor built into it. Works a treat, we've gone with those and now the servers shutdown gracefully well before they reach critical temperature, plus I get an email to my Blackberry.

[DMcCoy]

Worth speccing an environmental monitor in your solution then! If you are on APC UPS's you can get the SNMP management card with an environmental monitor built into it. Works a treat, we've gone with those and now the servers shutdown gracefully well before they reach critical temperature, plus I get an email to my Blackberry.

 

One thing to note is power management and RAID status really are quite a pain in ESXi, due to the lack of service console or missing CIM agents.

 

I'll be sticking with ESX for now. I assume Xen is ok as it's got the usual linux console too.

[Guest monkeyx]

We are using Proxmox for our Virtualisatio which provides a nice front end to openVZ and KVM.

 

For storage can I suggest you look at openfiler. Support iscsi targets, SMB, AD integration, snapshots etc. I even use it at home

 

We can not afford commercial NAS or SAN/NAS but even if we could the two products listed above compete very favourably and openfiler can provide commercial support if required.