How would you spec this hardware
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Here is the spec from the vendor for the VM that will be running. The VM itself will be running RHEL 7 and some vendor software, basically they will send me a disk image.
This is the only VM that will be running on the hypervisor. Well I might add a second VM to be a local backup target for the main VM so it is not waiting on files to push out a WAN pipe. But still basically only 1 VM.
There will be more than one all at various sites in different states.
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My thoughts:
1x 8 core CPU
32GB RAM (more if there is a deal, but no need to buy what I don't need)
XXX SSD in RAID5. -
Just to be annoying. Is there a reason you can't use a VPS provider?
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@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
My thoughts:
1x 8 core CPU
32GB RAM (more if there is a deal, but no need to buy what I don't need)
XXX SSD in RAID5.Ah nm. Didn't realize it needed to be that big.
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In all honesty, I'd just buy a used system for a few hundred dollars unless they are picky about that. You can get R710s and DL380s for ~$200-300. It would end up just being a throwaway device.
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@stacksofplates said in How would you spec this hardware:
Just to be annoying. Is there a reason you can't use a VPS provider?
Yes. There is hardware on site that will be talking to this server via TCP/IP. That hardware cannot hold data by itself long enough to survive Internet outages that have occurred in the past.
So this server will get the immediate data and then it will send it upstream and it can handle pretty much any length of outage.
If the hardware was able to hold a larger buffer of information, then we would only go with a single server in a colo or a VPS host.
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If recommended is four, why not get a quad core or a hexacore at most?
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@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
If recommended is four, why not get a quad core or a hexacore at most?
Because 8 cores are super common and drive price points. (thanks MS)
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@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
If recommended is four, why not get a quad core or a hexacore at most?
Because 8 cores are super common and drive price points. (thanks MS)
Common, but if you don't need the cores, still wasted.
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@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
If recommended is four, why not get a quad core or a hexacore at most?
Because 8 cores are super common and drive price points. (thanks MS)
Common, but if you don't need the cores, still wasted.
The point is that the COST is the same or better a lot of times for the 8 core proc because of supply chain. I am not buying because of core count alone.
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@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
If recommended is four, why not get a quad core or a hexacore at most?
Because 8 cores are super common and drive price points. (thanks MS)
Common, but if you don't need the cores, still wasted.
The point is that the COST is the same or better a lot of times for the 8 core proc because of supply chain. I am not buying because of core count alone.
Wow, hard to believe it is coming in cheaper, why do they even make anything less then?
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@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
@JaredBusch said in How would you spec this hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you spec this hardware:
If recommended is four, why not get a quad core or a hexacore at most?
Because 8 cores are super common and drive price points. (thanks MS)
Common, but if you don't need the cores, still wasted.
The point is that the COST is the same or better a lot of times for the 8 core proc because of supply chain. I am not buying because of core count alone.
Wow, hard to believe it is coming in cheaper, why do they even make anything less then?
They probably are not making anything smaller which is why the older stuff that is smaller cost more .
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Both of my R710s and my DL380 have 8 cores. The R710s were under $200 and the DL380 was like $230
