Software and Hardware Raid
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@dashrender Yeah it really is for testing purposes. I opened this topic because I wanted to get a better understanding of Raid than my limited experience had to offer and the various guides you can read explaining it. Every guide I have found does not go into any depth at all. I have learned Much more from this topic than from any previous article I have read.
At work I don't have any users who it would make sense to have a Raid system set up for currently. I just want to be prepared and know exactly what steps to consider if the use case ever does appear. While I am a noob compared to most of you all I still have no trouble setting up raid when I want to as I have a few times. I just wanted a better understanding of why and what other things to consider.
For myself there is value in me running a good Raid system at home. Who couldn't use a little better performance and reliability? I will do Raid 10. The most important thing to me is the learning experience and I like knowing best practices if at all possible. However, there are still things to consider. Remember everything I do at home is to help me learn something else in case I ever need it and I just like understanding things and am constantly trying to learn more. For home, what negatives do you see in using KVM so i can run lots of vm's in a Raid 10 system?
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@tim_g That makes a lot of sense and just re-enforces the need to be powershell competent. I think your right about the rest too
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@jmoore said in Software and Hardware Raid:
For home, what negatives do you see in using KVM so i can run lots of vm's in a Raid 10 system?
None. It's all positives if comparing against the alternatives.
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@jmoore said in Software and Hardware Raid:
For myself there is value in me running a good Raid system at home. Who couldn't use a little better performance and reliability? I will do Raid 10. The most important thing to me is the learning experience and I like knowing best practices if at all possible. However, there are still things to consider. Remember everything I do at home is to help me learn something else in case I ever need it and I just l lots of vm's in a Raid 10 system?
That's actually great for learning at home. Nothing is handed to you on a silver platter ready to go. That said, getting KVM and software RAID running is straight forward (notice I didn't say easy.)
