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

Can't wait for the kit to arrive, just got an order through for a customer

4x Xeon E7-4870 (that's 40 hyperthreaded cores = 80 logical cores)
1TB DDR 3 ECC Ram
2x 147GB SAS in Raid 1
3 x 640 GB Fusion IO drives in Raid 0 (yes, Raid 0 - they NEED the IO)

That's gonna be a SQL server .. one out of many mind you

I think I just drooled all over my desk ... Those Fusion IO cards alone are $10k each ...

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jibbajabba

As Raid0+1

nhan.ng

less talk, we need to see benchmark of this server and where are the hardware **** pix?

Forsaken_GA

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

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

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.

wd40

I was extremely happy when I saw the 16 logical cores on our new servers last week

I am not so happy any more

exampasser

That would make one nice ESXi server

jibbajabba

exampasser wrote: »

That would make one nice ESXi server .

They do have similar server as ESXi server, minus the Fusion IO cards though

cablegod

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.

jibbajabba

Love it

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nhan.ng

can it run crysis?

gorebrush

Does the girl come with the Fusion card?

If so, I'll be ordering 3 later.

Paul Boz

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.

jibbajabba

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

it_consultant

jibbajabba wrote: »

Love it

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