luckylinux
Limp Gawd
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I got my hands on some new virtualization hardware (I5-2400 and I5-3470) which doesn't support ECC RAM.
I'll be using ESXi or Xenserver (still thinking about that) with storage on a central server (E5-26XX with 64GB ECC RAM - Registered). I think I'm fairly safe from a memory corruption point of view (none of the VM are mission critical or managing critical data) and I can always take backups of the full VM (or even the filesystem using ZFS snapshots) in order to avoid that, as well as planning some memtests overnight to make sure RAM is not faulty.
Or do you think there are still some potential problems concerning data integrity?
I know ECC RAM is always better (most of the other hosts I have are ASUS AM3+ / ECC RAM / X2-X3-X4 or FX-4xxx|FX-6xxx|FX-8xxx which wouldn't be concerned by this problem), still I got a nice deal on these Intel processors I couldn't refuse.
Any opinions?
I'll be using ESXi or Xenserver (still thinking about that) with storage on a central server (E5-26XX with 64GB ECC RAM - Registered). I think I'm fairly safe from a memory corruption point of view (none of the VM are mission critical or managing critical data) and I can always take backups of the full VM (or even the filesystem using ZFS snapshots) in order to avoid that, as well as planning some memtests overnight to make sure RAM is not faulty.
Or do you think there are still some potential problems concerning data integrity?
I know ECC RAM is always better (most of the other hosts I have are ASUS AM3+ / ECC RAM / X2-X3-X4 or FX-4xxx|FX-6xxx|FX-8xxx which wouldn't be concerned by this problem), still I got a nice deal on these Intel processors I couldn't refuse.
Any opinions?
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