[TriLUG] TriLUG Server Refresh

[Craig Cook via TriLUG]

Before you jump into buying disks, how about some more questions?

How much disk space is needed?
When one hard drive fails, how long do you expect before someone can physically replace it? (The longer the delay, the more built in redundancy you should plan for).

What budget is available to purchase disks?

How many VM's do you plan to run and what do they do?
Who is going to support the OS/Hypervisor? (What skills to they have?)


After questions like these are answered you will get a better understanding of what I/O profile is needed.  ie. running a heavy duty I/O bound DB server may need SSD's.  Running a web server serving a few hundred people a day probably doesn't need SSD's.

Craig