Here's the situation. I'm going to colo a system at a budget provider. In the system I plan to have 8 hard drives and 2 SSDs.
In terms of hypervisor it will either be ESXi or Hyper-V. I do plan to have a Windows desktop VM but then mostly Linux VMs after that.
The two SSDs will be ~1TB capacity drives. They'll be in RAID 1 configuration for redundancy.
The additional 8 drives I'm planning to use two different brands so that way I have some protection against bad drives. Here's my options (using standard RAID terms not ZFS for everyone's ease):
Performance is less of a concern but I do plan on using Linux + napp-it as that looked intriguing. The drives will be passed through to the Linux-VM.
The primary reason for the 8 drives is backup. Assuming 4TB drives and 1-1.5TB of VMs but then I'll want to have longer term archival so have like 3 days worth of 12 hour snapshots. Most of the data is base Linux OS stuff. RAM wise it'll have at minimum 64GB.
What would you do in this case?
In terms of hypervisor it will either be ESXi or Hyper-V. I do plan to have a Windows desktop VM but then mostly Linux VMs after that.
The two SSDs will be ~1TB capacity drives. They'll be in RAID 1 configuration for redundancy.
The additional 8 drives I'm planning to use two different brands so that way I have some protection against bad drives. Here's my options (using standard RAID terms not ZFS for everyone's ease):
- Big RAID 10 array. Redundancy and performance.
- RAID 60. Can lose two drives on either array and be "OK"
- RAID 6 w/ 6 drives + 2 hot spares
- RAID 5 *4 drives then mirror.
Performance is less of a concern but I do plan on using Linux + napp-it as that looked intriguing. The drives will be passed through to the Linux-VM.
The primary reason for the 8 drives is backup. Assuming 4TB drives and 1-1.5TB of VMs but then I'll want to have longer term archival so have like 3 days worth of 12 hour snapshots. Most of the data is base Linux OS stuff. RAM wise it'll have at minimum 64GB.
What would you do in this case?