Installation on HP DL380

[matthew]

I am wanting to install Proxmox on a used HP DL380. I am thinking eight 750GB 2.5" SATA drives. I was thinking of installing Proxmox on one drive non-raid. Mounting a 2nd drive non-raid for backups. Then I thought I would mount the remaining 6 drives as RAID5 or RAID6 and use it for all the containers.

Is this a smart way to do things? I felt I did not need the redundancy or high speed I/O for system drive or the backup drive. I need the high speed I/O on the containers though. Unless there will be a lot of I/O on the system drive? I plan to use mostly OpenVZ containers and likely little if any KVM. This is to consolidate several older servers that are non-virtual.

 

[hotwired007]

in my opinion, i would create a logical disk across the whole lot and keep the security of knowing everthing will work if a drive fails, the Proxmox OS uses very little CPU/Memory/Disk IO and from expereince the worst thing you want to happen is to loose a drive as murphys law states it will be the system disk, i wold then store backups on a separate drive or maybe even an nfs share.