Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 16:49:28 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Gmirror/graid or hardware raid? Message-ID: <CA%2ByoEx-T5V3Rchxugke3%2BoUno6SwXHW1%2Bx466kWtb8VNYb%2BBbg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi; I'm building a server that is going to host VMs for a small e-commerce site. It's mainly going to be used for testing new solutions/improving the current site (on the cloud at this moment) but in the medium to long run, the idea is to hold the production site in it. Since I don't have any experience in running VMs for e-commerce, I don't know for sure if my plan is correct or even feasible. I want to use FBSD 10 as the host OS and the VMs will run under Virtual Box. It should be a Dell 430 server (or IBM equivalent) CPU Xeon E5-2630 with 4 2T SATA HDs/16 G Ram/ RAID PERC H730 controller (supported by mrsas). All VMs will run FBSD also with usual Apache/php/Mysql combination. I really would welcome suggestions/opinions on what would be the most efficient way to set up those HDs to hold these virtual disks. I thought about zfs but I won't have lots of RAM avaliable. Should I use the controller raid? Gmirror/Graid? What raid level? Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)
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