I'm now in a technical advisement role at a small business who distributes music (legally) to all the major retailers / streaming services. [rather not say who I work for, so please respect that].
They have about 6TB of catalog, however they've been renting a server in a Chicago data center with only about 1TB of space. (Which hosts their content portal).
problem A - no ability to deliver back catalog to new retailers.
problem B - running out space on current server to maintain day to day business operations. Every week they have to download 30-40GB of music to their local server just to maintain the status quo
problem C - I have limited knowledge on building large storage arrays. While I have several years of support desk experience and building 4-8TB arrays at home, they're looking to build out a 50+GB monster server to replace the rented server and probably a 30TB in house server.
However, I've done some research and I believe I have a plan of attack.
Data Pooling and protection (Flexraid)
22 Active Drives + 2 Hot spares (24 drives total)
I'd like to run 2 identical VMs. 11 drives on each. (unsure if that is even possible) The second VM will be save incremental backups of the first VM.
The primary VM will be RHEL or CentOS since that's what our current web server has run on and has done so with minimal glitches.
Here are the parts list I choose for the data center server.
I'm probably forgetting a few things, so please don't flame. I'm open to suggestions if anything is under or overkill.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=27166807 (2011 single socket build)
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=30179068 (1155 socket build)
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=27166867 (AMD C32 socket build)
**Updated the above to include 3 wishlists w/o drives** - This is to provide some perspective of the costs of the different systems with.
Yes, I know the SSDs in RAID 1 is overkill, but I'd rather have plenty of space for expansion of the VMs than not, and to reduce the likely hood the OS drive will fail.
Might be able to shave a few pennies off if I use camelcamelcamel/camelegg.com
This project isn't a emergency project, but if given the 'go' (which is likely due to the business continuity need), I need to be able to start purchasing the gear bit by bit and be able to have a full system ready to go by beginning of November for testing, so it can go into production in December.
They have about 6TB of catalog, however they've been renting a server in a Chicago data center with only about 1TB of space. (Which hosts their content portal).
problem A - no ability to deliver back catalog to new retailers.
problem B - running out space on current server to maintain day to day business operations. Every week they have to download 30-40GB of music to their local server just to maintain the status quo
problem C - I have limited knowledge on building large storage arrays. While I have several years of support desk experience and building 4-8TB arrays at home, they're looking to build out a 50+GB monster server to replace the rented server and probably a 30TB in house server.
However, I've done some research and I believe I have a plan of attack.
Data Pooling and protection (Flexraid)
22 Active Drives + 2 Hot spares (24 drives total)
I'd like to run 2 identical VMs. 11 drives on each. (unsure if that is even possible) The second VM will be save incremental backups of the first VM.
The primary VM will be RHEL or CentOS since that's what our current web server has run on and has done so with minimal glitches.
Here are the parts list I choose for the data center server.
I'm probably forgetting a few things, so please don't flame. I'm open to suggestions if anything is under or overkill.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=27166807 (2011 single socket build)
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=30179068 (1155 socket build)
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=27166867 (AMD C32 socket build)
**Updated the above to include 3 wishlists w/o drives** - This is to provide some perspective of the costs of the different systems with.
Yes, I know the SSDs in RAID 1 is overkill, but I'd rather have plenty of space for expansion of the VMs than not, and to reduce the likely hood the OS drive will fail.
Might be able to shave a few pennies off if I use camelcamelcamel/camelegg.com
This project isn't a emergency project, but if given the 'go' (which is likely due to the business continuity need), I need to be able to start purchasing the gear bit by bit and be able to have a full system ready to go by beginning of November for testing, so it can go into production in December.
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