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*thug* .. I just dropped dead .. what a server

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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    It's all about the right raid level ;)
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    phoeneousphoeneous Member Posts: 2,333 ■■■■■■■□□□
    And what does RAID 10 look like?
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    As Raid0+1 icon_smile.gif
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    nhan.ngnhan.ng Member Posts: 184
    less talk, we need to see benchmark of this server and where are the hardware **** pix?icon_lol.gif
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    Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    Company is a customer of ours for 10+ years and they are in the business for much longer than that. The 'problem' is simply that I cannot go into details but it surely is awesome to 'play' with server such as this icon_wink.gif

    All I am saying is, not everything is black and White when it comes to specifics such as Raid icon_wink.gif

    I can see it as being a perfectly valid setup, I have some idea of what kind of database activity they're going to be doing if they require that much I/O, and it's hard to argue against it.

    If this was going to be the sole server for the database information, then I'd laugh and wait to hear about how their business failed because of a head crash and they didn't care about data redundancy. But if they're implementing their data redundancy with multiple servers of similar design (and I'd bet they'll have a replication server somewhere that will do nothing but take updates and store a live copy of the database for emergency recovery if ever necessary), then raid 0 for a DB server is just fine. Far too many people get caught up in the paradigms of what they consider 'right' and don't look at new ideas objectively.
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    wd40wd40 Member Posts: 1,017 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I was extremely happy when I saw the 16 logical cores on our new servers last week :D

    I am not so happy any more icon_lol.gif
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    phoeneousphoeneous Member Posts: 2,333 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Forsaken_GA wrote: »
    If the database is getting alot of writes, then yes. RAID5 doesn't have a problem with reads. The problem comes on writes, because of the parity information. The parity calculation and the extra write of the parity information kills write performance. And it has to be done for *every* write, no matter what size it is.

    Interesting. I'll have to see how many writes our db does and consider moving to RAID 10.
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    exampasserexampasser Member Posts: 718 ■■■□□□□□□□
    That would make one nice ESXi server :).
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    exampasser wrote: »
    That would make one nice ESXi server :).

    They do have similar server as ESXi server, minus the Fusion IO cards though :)
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    cablegodcablegod Member Posts: 294
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    They do have similar server as ESXi server, minus the Fusion IO cards though :)

    I can say from experience that VM's FLY on Fusion-io cards and SSD. I run it in all of my VM hosts.
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Love it :)
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    nhan.ngnhan.ng Member Posts: 184
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    can it run crysis? icon_lol.gif
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    gorebrushgorebrush Member Posts: 2,743 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Does the girl come with the Fusion card?

    If so, I'll be ordering 3 later.
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    Paul BozPaul Boz Member Posts: 2,620 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Everyone wrote: »
    Holy crap! Must be some massive databases they'll be handling.

    Our DB farm has almost a petabyte of storage now and hundreds of gigs of RAM. As others have said, its not just the scale of the database but the number of queries. For some perspective, my SIEM solution is ingesting almost 150 million SQL events a day.
    CodeBlox wrote: »
    Damn, I'm still fairly a newbie but 1tb or ram!!?? Also, why not raid 5?

    1tb isn't that much if it is a high-volume database with lots of calls and queries being processed.
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    gorebrush wrote: »
    Does the girl come with the Fusion card?

    If so, I'll be ordering 3 later.

    Like I say - one is about $10k so I am sure you get easily a chick like that for $30k :p
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    it_consultantit_consultant Member Posts: 1,903
    jibbajabba wrote: »
    Love it :)

    I like how only two cores have any activity at all.
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