Proliant buying advice
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@scottalanmiller said:
I can't figure out what "ar" stands for but it appears that it means that it is a mezzanine card rather than an add on card.
Ah, I see. It does look different:
I'm advised that I can't currently get a DL380 without a P440ar/2GB, so it would be a case of throwing it away and replacing it with a P440/4GB. I'd effectively be buying two cards, even though I only used one. I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Is it possible to simply upgrade the RAID controller at a later date if performance becomes a problem, or does that incur a world of pain?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Is it possible to simply upgrade the RAID controller at a later date if performance becomes a problem, or does that incur a world of pain?
Generally pretty painless. Since they are both SmartArrays.
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Cool. I might do that, then. Though those kinds of upgrades always scare me.
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2GB of cache is still four times what you have now and twice what most anyone else has.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Never Internal FIO
Isn't that what I'm seeing here:
I'd guess in this case Int means it's an internal card, though not sure why they would need to specify that.
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@Dashrender said:
I'd guess in this case Int means it's an internal card, though not sure why they would need to specify that.
Internal SAS connections.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I'd guess in this case Int means it's an internal card, though not sure why they would need to specify that.
Internal SAS connections.
So you're ditching what you thought FIO meant?
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@Dashrender said:
So you're ditching what you thought FIO meant?
@Carnival-Boy already showed that I had to be wrong on that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
So you're ditching what you thought FIO meant?
@Carnival-Boy already showed that I had to be wrong on that.
I was finding a way for you to be right on that, but that Int meant the card was internal...
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Can't really have an external SmartArray
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@scottalanmiller said:
Can't really have an external SmartArray
Yeah - it seems like an unnecessary descriptor to me, but as Carnival-Boy noted, perhaps it's something entirely different.
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@JaredBusch said:
Using the numbers in the post @scottalanmiller linked a few days back it looks like this.
8x drives:
http://i.imgur.com/nCHEJS0.jpg16x drives:
http://i.imgur.com/pT1di5M.jpgWow. Thanks. My quick, early morning calculations say that most economical solution is to run lots of low capacity, slow disks (ie 300gb 10k). Here is the comparison of different disks, all giving 4.8TB raw storage. You can see that the best bang for your buck (lowest cost per IOPS) is the 300gb 10k disk. Most Gen9 Proliants support 24 SFF disks, so there is plenty of room. There would be an additional cost of powering the extra disks, but I assume that is minimal, plus double the disks means double the failures. What do you think I should do?
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Had another look at SSDs. I didn't realise HP's "Enterprise Value" line was so cheap. $800 for 300GB. That isn't much different from 15k SAS. I could get a couple of these and still have money left over to buy a larger array of 10k SAS or 7.5k Midline SAS to cover my other VMs.
Can anyone explain the difference between "Enterprise Value", "Enterprise Mainstream" and "Enterprise Performance", apart from $$$? Who makes them?
Urrgh! Too many choices! I hate shopping!!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Wow. Thanks. My quick, early morning calculations say that most economical solution is to run lots of low capacity, slow disks (ie 300gb 10k).
That is often the case.
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Read this on HP.com: "Because of the limitations of endurance, SSDs—unlike disk drives—have a limited service life in a
server."That service life is listed at just three years. Three years! I could make an assumption that the cost to replace in three years time will be considerably lower than the current cost, but I'm not sure I want to go there.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Had another look at SSDs. I didn't realise HP's "Enterprise Value" line was so cheap. $800 for 300GB.
When it comes to IOPS, SSDs are the value option. It's capacity where they are still lacking.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Read this on HP.com: "Because of the limitations of endurance, SSDs—unlike disk drives—have a limited service life in a
server."That service life is listed at just three years. Three years! I could make an assumption that the cost to replace in three years time will be considerably lower than the current cost, but I'm not sure I want to go there.
Normally enterprise SSDs have drastically longer lives than HDs. SSDs are measured in writes, HDs in service years, though. What a service life of three years on an SSD means I have no idea. They don't wear out that way.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What a service life of three years on an SSD means I have no idea. They don't wear out that way.
Specifically "3k – 5k NAND program/erase cycles" for the Value range and "100k – 200k" for the Performance range. I have no idea how to calculate my requirements though.
I don't know if this means I have to replace them after three years, or if I can just replace them as and when they fail under warranty. Are they covered by post-warranty Carepacks, or would 3 years be considered wear and tear.
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You might be interested in reading this regarding SSD life:
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03312456Basically, HP software monitors the number of writes, and when the limit is reached it puts the drive into a state of predictive failure and you have to replace it.
