Mackintire
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So I have a very limited budget and am trying to sell a senior manager on virtualizing a few of our boxes.
I was planning on purchaing a proliant ML150 G6 w/xeon E5530 and adding the following:
16GB of EEC RAM
HP P410 Smart Array
6 WD RE4 500GB drives
A decent flash drive to load EXSi 4.0 on
So the plan to to make a RAID 10 out of (4) of the RE4 drives and use that for mounting the VMs
So my first question is can I use VT-d with the motherboard and CPU
Because of budget constraints and other requirements I need the cheapest Hardware RAID card that I can use that support VTd and use the other two RE4 drives in RAID 1
That mirrored datastore would be backed up weekly to our NAS.
If the RAID 1 array had performance similar to a single drive that's fine, but doing this as inexpensively as possible is the goal.
FYI... the machines being virtualized are as follows:
# 1 windows XP machine that is currently being way over taxed as a services (server)
# 2 Windows XP machine used to compile code with a built in licensing server module
# 3 Windows SBS machine that will replace machine #1
# 4 development console....using for testing.....destroyed over and over again as a test bed for software.
# 5 Ubuntu Server machine used for various linux services and licensing server
I was planning on purchaing a proliant ML150 G6 w/xeon E5530 and adding the following:
16GB of EEC RAM
HP P410 Smart Array
6 WD RE4 500GB drives
A decent flash drive to load EXSi 4.0 on
So the plan to to make a RAID 10 out of (4) of the RE4 drives and use that for mounting the VMs
So my first question is can I use VT-d with the motherboard and CPU
Because of budget constraints and other requirements I need the cheapest Hardware RAID card that I can use that support VTd and use the other two RE4 drives in RAID 1
That mirrored datastore would be backed up weekly to our NAS.
If the RAID 1 array had performance similar to a single drive that's fine, but doing this as inexpensively as possible is the goal.
FYI... the machines being virtualized are as follows:
# 1 windows XP machine that is currently being way over taxed as a services (server)
# 2 Windows XP machine used to compile code with a built in licensing server module
# 3 Windows SBS machine that will replace machine #1
# 4 development console....using for testing.....destroyed over and over again as a test bed for software.
# 5 Ubuntu Server machine used for various linux services and licensing server