PantheraLeo
IS-IT--Management
Help! I've gotten thrown into this position of IT/Server/UTM/Network Admin Guru because I knew the most about desktop systems at our company. (Of course I didn’t get a raise!) Right now I'm rebuilding servers using any information I can get my hands on.
The newest one is reconfiguring a PowerEdge 2900 to be a RAID 10 file server for our artwork. I'm looking at installing 8 500 GB SATA drives which should give me about 1.8 terabytes of storage w/ total fault tolerance (as long as I don’t loose the same two drives in a mirror).
My questions are these:
What is the best way to set it up? Using a total software raid solution such as VERITAS or a software and hardware solution?
If the answer is Software, is VERITAS the best? It’s mentioned several times in one of my reference books, "Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions", in the RAID section.
If the answer is a combination (using the W2003 Server Logical Disk Manager & a PERC 5I card) or straight hardware what would be the most recommended PERC 5I card to go with?
Straight hardware seems to be what my references point me to but I wanted to try to get some hands on insight.
Thanks in advance for any help you can lend.
The newest one is reconfiguring a PowerEdge 2900 to be a RAID 10 file server for our artwork. I'm looking at installing 8 500 GB SATA drives which should give me about 1.8 terabytes of storage w/ total fault tolerance (as long as I don’t loose the same two drives in a mirror).
My questions are these:
What is the best way to set it up? Using a total software raid solution such as VERITAS or a software and hardware solution?
If the answer is Software, is VERITAS the best? It’s mentioned several times in one of my reference books, "Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions", in the RAID section.
If the answer is a combination (using the W2003 Server Logical Disk Manager & a PERC 5I card) or straight hardware what would be the most recommended PERC 5I card to go with?
Straight hardware seems to be what my references point me to but I wanted to try to get some hands on insight.
Thanks in advance for any help you can lend.