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  1. Sycos
    Don't worry everything is under control.
  2. Sycos
    I am not alone, as this is for a company I am just new to doing this and this is the reason why they put me in charge so I would get more experience and knowledge of those things.
  3. Sycos
    Thanks for the quick reply, I'll be sure to learn about those! I got aware that we would use VMware Free Edition as the hypervisor.
  4. Sycos
    Hello people, I just got ask to find 4 servers, precisely « 4 x HP Proliant DL380P G8 », to do VM stuff. They'll have to host 2 DNS servers on 2 different physical machines throught VM software. It's supposed to be running of FreeBSD with a DNS server application called « BIND », but the truth is, maybe there is a better set-up than these options. The servers will be running with 2 GB Raid Controller with 64 GB of RAM, as well as a RAID 1+0 set-up. I was asking myself if there would be other servers similar to the model I quoted just above, and if there would be any OS (ZFS with VM?) or software that would be doing the job better than these ones? If you do, please share and explain how/why, thanks! Share us your VM workstations set-up as it might light up some ideas! This is for a company, thus have in mind the same price point as the model I quoted.
  5. Sycos
    Ok thank you for the quick answers! I'll look up about ZFS and slog drives as I've never heard of neither of them.
  6. Sycos
    We are running under FreeBSD, isn't a software raid always worst than a real RAID? What if the servers runs out of electricity and the backup batteries don't work? Is all of your data going to be corrupted, I know that this is why RAID Card with batterie included is always best to have, but what about software raid? I've always been told it's never nearly as powerful than a physical raid.
  7. Sycos
    What is the difference between the s4500 series and the s3500 series? As I can see on Intel's website, the s4500 is actually cheaper than the s3500 series which seems a bit weird. Can the RAID Controller card P410i be a bottleneck with SSDs?
  8. Sycos
    Hello world, so here's my questions. Where I work, we've got a Zabbix server, proxy and a database server all running on different machines. Right now our bottleneck is mainly the database server, running on 4 x HDD drives at 10k RPM with a RAID Controller 410i on RAID 10 (1+0), we've got 1150 hosts, 36 658 items and 10 068 triggers enabled and working. We are working with Ubiquiti antennas aswell as our Zabbix servers, and currently looking to upgrade our database server since as I said before it is the bottleneck in our configuration. We would like to have around 1TB of disk-space, considering this and our RAID setup, it'd need us 4 disk drives. As a company the budget is tolerable but no too crazy. I doubt buying a 10k$ server would be the best of ideas. A rater interesting used server which, has the configuration as listed below, is sold for $506.00 US has come to our minds. Chassis: HP ProLiant DL360 G7 8-Port Chassis (150$) CPU: 2 x GHz Hex-Core (6 cores, 12 threads) Intel Xeon Processor With 12MB Cache -- X5670 (2 x 60$) RAM: 64GB Memory Upgrade Kit -- 8 x 8GB 2RX4 PC3-10600R -- 1333MHz (216$) RAID: Smart Array P410i 1GB FBWC 0-60 RAID (20$) PSU: (2) HP G7 G8 460 Watt PSU And for the storage, well, this is quite the question, since the servers have always been using 10k RPM HDD we haven't tested anything using SSDs. So what would you recommend using as for SSDs, and is the configuration listed above any good for our purposes, what would you change and why? If you guys have any other question, let me know and i'll edit the post. Other than that, if someone has a better build or RAID Controller or really anything, that would perform better let us know because we want to take our time buying the right system that will fits our demands.
  9. Sycos
    Which Thermaltake do you recommand me to use for this?
  10. Sycos
    So basically you're saying any LGA775 watercooler with fit on my dual cpu LGA771 motherboard?
  11. Sycos
    Thanks for your answer buddy! I can buy yes no problem but I kinda wanted an already filled and working watercooling system but whatever haha. Also i'll have a 4U case so i'm not worry about the place Still don't know what i'll do to make it work but yeah.. we'll see haha Cause I need a bracket that will fit my LGA771 so then i can buy any watercooler i want..
  12. Sycos
    yeah but build from 0 would cost too much anyway it's just for fun EDIT: You can find an average CPU watercooling, but the problem is the bracket that you need to find EDIT2: I've found the one that support LGA771 socket: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16835214062 if I remember correctly LGA775 is basically the same "socket" as the LGA771 right?
  13. Sycos
    Hello I have a Super X7DBR-I+ motherboard with a Intel Xeon 5160 (which i might switch to a 5450 or higher if i want to do the lga 775 to lga 771 trick but whatever!), I still got only one CPU but i'll have eventually 2. I wanted to know if it was possible to watercool that kind of socket (lga771)? I have a 4U case with a 650 Watt PSU but it seems like i only have the backplate on the motherboard.. anyone has an idea on how i can watercool that? I've watched the linus tech tips videos but it's enought detailed so i couldnt get answer that way. And here another question, do both cpu has the be the same model in order to work or i could go with a Xeon 5160 and like a 5450 (both lga771)? Thanks !
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