Hello,
I have been using HP DL360s and DL380s with Open-E for the past few years. I have been looking into moving to a lower cost system. Does anyone have recommendations for Intel, SuperMicro, etc systems that work well with Open-E?
Thanks,
Tareef
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Hello,
I have been using HP DL360s and DL380s with Open-E for the past few years. I have been looking into moving to a lower cost system. Does anyone have recommendations for Intel, SuperMicro, etc systems that work well with Open-E?
Thanks,
Tareef
hi tareef,
we use this since 1 year:
Mainboard Supermicro X8DT3
Chasis SC836
CPU 1xIntel Xeon 5550W
RAM 24GB (6x4GB)
Raid Controller Adaptec ICP Vortex 8165BR with BB 256 Cache
HDD 16x Western Digital 1TB Raid Edition 3
NIC Intel 10gbe CX4 Dual Port
Switch
2x HP 6400cl CX4
we only change our raidcontroller to areca.
because of a still not fixed adaptec driver and raid 6 error in open-e.
so dont use adaptec and raid 6 with open-e!!!
look at this thread
http://forum.open-e.com/showthread.php?t=1991
greetings
roger
I have almost the identical system but I am using an adaptec 51645 with the latest version of DSS and knock on wood, we have had no problems. On my system I have 8 gb of ram and it connects to a cisco 3560-e switch via 10 gb cx4. All of my other servers that connect to it via MPIO gigabit ethernet. It is FAST! A comparable system from HP at the time was about $4k more!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerk
Thank you for the reply. I love HP, but seems like the last year working with Open-E on HP server, the connectivity is getting slower unless I speed a decent amount upgrading the controllers and batteries
Thanks
Tareef
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Originally Posted by rogerk
If DL360's and 380's are a bit pricey, what about DL180's?
You can get a DL180 fitted with twelve 3.5" Hot-Swap bays. They come with iLO as well.
May I know why do you need 24GB Ram?Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerk
What is 5550W? Is it X5550?
Do you really need such a high CPU and so much RAM?
sorry,
yes it is the x5500 ...
more ram means more WB Cache
iscsi with 10gbe needs fast cpu to satisfy 10gbe, especially smal blocks 4kb need fast cpu.
roger
Did you monitor the CPU usage? Even my 8x Intel X25-M 160GB SSD setup on Adaptec 5805Z only require 2x E5520 which is super idle most of the time. I was using 4x 1GBe link as teaming via twin Dell 5424 switches as redundancy and load balance.Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerk
How much did you pay for the 10GBe HP switch?
I am new job which require me to setup SAN for virtualization again, just wondering if there is a need to go for 10GBe instead of teaming of 1GBe on SSD as the storage array.
The bottleneck should be at Disk I/O instead of CPU nor SAN Switches. Do correct me if I am wrong.
Looking at Mushkin SandForce based 250GB SSD now...
10 gbe has come down in cost a lot recently, if your connections are close CX4 is extremely affordable.