For the storage, since the current controller is SAS6(I believe it is SAS6)/SATA3, there isn’t a clear answer as to what to do storage wise. While I’d prefer something like the Intel DC S3500, if we’re looking for fast performance, a PCIe based solution will be cheaper than buying a new raid controller that supports… Continue reading SSD storage thoughts for the new server
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Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSDs for VM Apache web serving
We have a couple Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSDs in house for stress testing! Assuming they pass muster, and by all accounts they should, we’ll be getting some more for use on our primary Weblogs.us web server virtual machine. So far things are looking good, the drives are FAST and there have been no issues… Continue reading Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSDs for VM Apache web serving
Thank you to Kevin Knasel
A big ‘thank you’ to Kevin Knasel! Kevin kindly donated funds for new SSD drives that will be used for upgrading our virtual machine datastores. We already use SSDs for our MySQL database servers but with this kind new donation we will eventually be able to run EVERYTHING off of SSDs. Woot! 🙂 As any… Continue reading Thank you to Kevin Knasel
New hardware! 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950
We’re very excited to have a nice new (to us) 1U server headed out way: Still deciding whether this machine will become our primary DB server, or serve as a higher-end VM server for us. Either way, in addition to this one, we have one more server in our near future and hopefully we’ll be… Continue reading New hardware! 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950