++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[sdifox]

Especially uf you use base image plus difference disk. Really cuts down on storage requirement

 

[Red Squirrel]

Vm on ssd is awesome

Yeah at some point I'd like to build an array of SSDs. Crazy expensive though and I don't like the idea that they wear out based on usage.

What would be awesome is ram drives, it would be like a SSD but use ram chips and battery backup. I wonder why that is not a thing.

 

[sdifox]

I am on server 2012 r2 datacenter. Yes, legit licence.

 

[sdifox]

Yeah at some point I'd like to build an array of SSDs. Crazy expensive though and I don't like the idea that they wear out based on usage.

What would be awesome is ram drives, it would be like a SSD but use ram chips and battery backup. I wonder why that is not a thing.

Too expensive. And you still need to write the whole shabang to disk eventually.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Holy crap how much did that set you back? lol I use only Linux. I hate Windows licensing. Even if you pay for it they still want more money depending on what you do.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol my cat eating left over BBQ chips crumbs from my bowl.

 

[sdifox]

I had a ramdisk spanned to ssd for plex scratch duty for a while. But eventually stopped cuz it was a waste.

 

[sdifox]

Holy crap how much did that set you back? lol I use only Linux. I hate Windows licensing. Even if you pay for it they still want more money depending on what you do.

I didnt pay for it. My buddy in ms got it for me.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a couple windows 2008 VMs running a .net based game server (dev test and prod) but Jack Sparrow got the licenses for me. ARRRRRRRRR.

 

[sdifox]

Now that I am up to 72gb ram, may play with ramdisk some more, but I doubt it.

 

[sdifox]

Time for you to upgrade to 2016

 

[sdifox]

Plex vm has 12 vcores and starts with 6gb of ram

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nah it runs fine. Was on 2003 for the longest time tbh. Then decided to see if the application works in 2008 and it did. Doesn't anything after 2008 have the metro crap?

A VM on a ram disk could be fun to try.

 

[sdifox]

Huh, how odd. In chrome on my phone, sig is hidden in portrait mode, but it is shown in landscape mode.

 

[sdifox]

Nah it runs fine. Was on 2003 for the longest time tbh. Then decided to see if the application works in 2008 and it did. Doesn't anything after 2008 have the metro crap?

A VM on a ram disk could be fun to try.

I doubt you'll notice the diff between it being on ssd vs ramdisk.

Server 2012 is not too bad on metro front.

 

[sdifox]

My plex vm on ssd, which is not running on difference disk, boots up to login screen in less than 7 seconds.

 

[sdifox]

Too bad I missed the ebay black friday 750gb ssd deal.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Extra nef

 

[sdifox]

Nihongo

 

[sdifox]

Necronomicon

 

[Red Squirrel]

I should buy more hard drives for my file server.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_isengard-lv_root
                       50G  6.3G   41G  14% /
tmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdv1             477M  162M  290M  36% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_isengard-lv_home
                       53G   53M   50G   1% /home
/dev/md0              5.4T  3.5T  1.7T  68% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              6.3T  5.0T  1.1T  83% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  1.3T  5.6T  19% /volumes/raid3

I don't like seeing usage numbers higher than 50%. Need to phase out raid2 at some point though. It's a raid 5 with 1TB drives. Could free up those slots for bigger drives. Still have like 3 slots left too in the server. 2 are physically near raid1, so I'd grow that one most likely. Not that physical location matters but I'm anal. Raid2 array is mostly just used for backups too so I could literally just remove it, and build a new array, then rerun all the backup jobs, while keeping the old drives just in case. I would probably just throw them in my removable backup pool.

I may experiment with ZFS at some point too. Using mdadm raid now. I still kind of want to set this server up as a SAN at some point too, on it's own network that plugs directly into the servers that need storage. iSCSI would be nice too if I can find a way to set it up properly on a multi host VM setup. There's something called Gluster but you pretty much need to be the head scientist at NASA to figure it out.

 

[sdifox]

Your drives are like my inactive drives.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sweet just remembered it's pay day tomorrow. Getting paid tonight. Christmas + OT on that cheque. I checked my pay stub as it always comes out ahead of time, and I'll be getting 2,800 or so. Should be able to put a big chunk on my credit line. It's also the start of the month so more of that money stays in the bank. May actually be able to pay the credit line off completely.

 

[sdifox]

You can always go hadoop

 

[sdifox]

It doesn't like small files though.