New and need some hardware configuration recommendation

[aichemist]

Hi,

I am currently running Windows Server 2008r2 and planning on moving to promox and trying out different OS using virtual setup. I'm hoping to run Ubuntu, Fedora and windows.

I currently run

AMD 2.2gig x3 45 watt
8 gigs of ram

64 SSD (Main OS)

3ware 9650SE RAID card
5x 2tb hard drive on RAID 5 configuration.

If I plan on running on promox, should I give up the SSD and just use the RAID 5 for VE?

Or should I get a bigger hard drive for VE on the main hard drive while all the OS will map the RAID 5 as secondary drive for storing data.

Any help is appreciated. This isn't a territory I'm very familiar with and I'm trying to look at videos and stuff. Hopefully you guys don't think I'm too newb =(.

Thanks.

 

[udo]

Hi,

I am currently running Windows Server 2008r2 and planning on moving to promox and trying out different OS using virtual setup. I'm hoping to run Ubuntu, Fedora and windows.

I currently run

AMD 2.2 x3 45 watt
8 gigs of ram

64 SSD (Main OS)

3ware 9650SE RAID card
5x 2tb hard drive on RAID 5 configuration.

If I plan on running on promox, should I give up the SSD and just use the RAID 5 for VE?

Or should I get a bigger hard drive for VE on the main hard drive while all the OS will map the RAID 5 as secondary drive for storing data.

Any help is appreciated. This isn't a territory I'm very familiar with and I'm trying to look at videos and stuff. Hopefully you guys don't think I'm too newb =(.

Thanks.

Hi,
advantage of ssd: you don't need to use two volumesets on the Raid (pve need a disk < 2TB for installation).
disadvantage of ssd: the ssd is a single point of failure - if the ssd die, your configs are lost.

I guess for the first tries, your hardware is ok. For virtualisation is good io very helpfull - so perhaps you need a BBU for your raidcontroller?
You can also go for raid-10 (but then you have only 4TB).
And perhaps you nned more ram. amd-cpus support ecc-ram if the bios support this also. With the right motherboard you can use ecc-ram - not so cheap but recommendet for server.

Udo

 

[aichemist]

I already have BBU on the raid controller. I'm probably sticking with non ecc ram at this point. If i do get all the VE setup nicely, I might move to Intel CPU as it can do multi threads so I can pump the number of VE. I'm more concern on how I should configure hard drives. Should I install promox straight on the RAID drives with a new partition or should promox be installed on a non raid configuration. Right now I use the RAID 5 configuration as a secondary hard drive. Am I getting my problem through ? =)

Thanks.

Matthew