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
Category: Hardware
Updating software, nextgen server addition coming
John has been busy! Updated most of the userlandand the kernel. Also, did some package cleaning. Next up is the eventual addition of a nextgen (to us) server at the datacenter and some additional isolation of VMs. It should be good stuff 🙂
New server addition
Weblogs.us is getting some additional server hardware 🙂 Here are specs: Model Dell PowerEdge 1950 Server III Processor 2x Intel Quad Core 3.0GHz 12M 1333M E5450 Memory Installed 32GB Fully Buffered Memory Eight Slots Available: 8 x 4 GB Memory Sticks Hard Drives 4x 146GB SAS 15K Hard Drives 2.5″ Riser Board PCI(e) Riser Board… Continue reading New server addition
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 firewall, new Ethernet switch, improved remote troubleshooting
Good news at the datacenter that the Weblogs.us servers call home 🙂 JD made a trip down to Tulsa and : +replaced a failed firewall with a brand new one (roughly 6x more powerful!) +upgraded one of our Ethernet switches to the latest and greatest +installed the replacement KVM setup so we have better remote… Continue reading New firewall, new Ethernet switch, improved remote troubleshooting