This is the first video in a while I’ve felt the need to comment….. THANK YOU! I just got a used server in and everything I had questions on you covered in this video

Thanks so much! My job is more network related, so I don't deal with the server side often enough to remember how to configure storage. I was able to get my new SSDs configured with your help! My minecraft server feels happy :)

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Great to hear! 😊

Most helpful video! Thank you very much.

Great video. Thanks for sharing

Thank you!!!!

excellent!, thank You very much!.

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

so do you create 2 virtual HD groups with 1 for the OS and the other for data? So for example if you had 6 drives, could you create a VHD group with 3 drives as the primary partition in a RAID-5 structure. And then create a second VHD group with the other 3 drives in another RAID-5 structure for data? What is best practice?

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

Hi it all varies you can create a RAID 1 mirror for the OS partition and a RAID 5 with the rest of the 4 drives but also depends on what kind of hard drives you will utilize and what’s the reliability of how much RAID protection you want to implement

I have never clicked on a KZread video so fast

@Virtualbytes1

6 жыл бұрын

:) Dont break the mouse! :P

@lukewyn-harris5628

6 жыл бұрын

I've watched all of your video start to finish 4 times

@Virtualbytes1

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you :) I will be doing some new VMware Tutorials!

@lukewyn-harris5628

6 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to them! Also how big is your room that they are in. I'm looking at building a server room. Thanks

@Virtualbytes1

6 жыл бұрын

The room is fairly big, id say 9 feet wide by 13 feet long its little off shape in some areas but almost like a rectangle, its in the utility room at my home. Cooling is nice cause the wall are concrete and does not get hot. stays 72 degrees during summer and 67 degrees winter

I got a cheap R610 server with just a 1.2 TB 10K SAS disk, but the performance of the vms are very slow. Can i improve the performance attaching more drives?

@Virtualbytes1

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! Yes, the more drives added into a RAID topology it will increase performance depending on the RAID Configuration, RAID 10 is the most common for Virtualization has robust speeds for VMs and provides great resiliency!

@francisbaez8007

3 жыл бұрын

@@Virtualbytes1 thanks you so much

@jeffm4284

2 жыл бұрын

You can use an NVMe as cache with a PCIe card. You cannot boot from it though.

thank you

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

If that's running, that's quiet. I'm thinking of getting one for my bedroom/office. I like server noise as background ambience anyway.

@Virtualbytes1

6 жыл бұрын

Yep! I cant even hear these servers unless i am trans coding on some crazy Plex or other analytics stuff with vRealize.. the loudest thing in my rack is my Catalyst 3750G switch

@cambridgeport90

6 жыл бұрын

I need to watch the rest of your channel then. Seriously. I subscribed; you look like you've got some interesting stuff there. And that's your house server room isn't it?

why are you downgrading from SSD to 10k spindle drives? wouldn't it be slower or you just want more capacity for lower cost?

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

Old video. But if you need capacity then spindle drives are the way to go. Check out new videos I have!

do you know if the r620 will work with a 4 or 8tb sata ssd?

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, it should. I have installed 10-16TB drives before in a 720 which is same series of raid controller as 620. Make sure you have the “P” series of the PERC controllers

The R620 requires two drives to boot right?

@thestrugglingtech

4 жыл бұрын

No, it does not, it will boot with only one drive.

hi, I like the video. Me being more network I have trouble with the system. Indeed I have the DELL EMC R640 server or I have several disks but which does not display on my operating system. I remind you that it was a virtualization with ESXI. Need your help, if possible. Thank you

@Virtualbytes1

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! That’s awesome great to hear I was able to help out! :)

Curious just how much money you have invested in this particular server.

@Virtualbytes1

6 жыл бұрын

I purchased it from a craigslist listing, on ebay this server is going around $5000-6000ish i paid - $1,400 for it which i had no hesitation of buying it when i saw how much ram costs and the cpus for this one

When using 4 drives, RAID5 would give you 50% better linear throughput, and 50% more space (which also means extra performance when disk is full) compared to RAID10. Latency more or less the same for both configurations. You could probably think that RAID5 has some computational penalty, but in fact even for 8 drives the troughput scales linearly (x7).

@francisbaez8007

3 жыл бұрын

I got a cheap R610 server with just a 1.2 TB 10K SAS DRIVE but the performance of the vms are very slow. Can i improve the performance attaching more drives?

@Siperru

3 жыл бұрын

@@francisbaez8007 for cloud host server it is better to switch to SSD I think. HDD Raid is good for hight throughput linear writer or reader, such as log server, trading server, sometimes big data server.

This is dell our 620 and today were gonna install ssd