[Cialug] Virtual Box and NAS

[Jon Clemons]

IMO 4 sata drives aren't going to give much performance for several virtual machines especially database servers with lots of io. If your going to build your own then look at openfiler. 


Dave Hala Jr <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:


I was looking for high performance file server for a reasonable amount
of money. Consensus is that a home built file server would readily out
perform most of the NAS boxes in the under $1500.00 range.

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 17:50 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 05:45 PM 8/17/2011, you wrote:
> >So... the question is, if we have a Centos 6 file server, with a 
> >1gbintel nic and a 3ware 8006-4lp sata controller with 4 or so 1.5gb 
> >7200sata drives in a raid 5 configuration, does a dual Pentium III 
> >1.4 ghzmachine with 2gb of ram have enough horsepower for decent performance?
> 
> Performance at what? X windows, probably not, . . file/print, certainly.
> 
> Lee 
> 
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