RAID card for server upgrade
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@RamblingBiped said in RAID card for server upgrade:
I've finally got that thinking shifted and we're moving toward a unified hardware lifecycle.
What does this mean, exactly?
I used to be of the mindset, auto replace every X years was a good plan. Now I'm to a point where I don't replace unless a machine suffers a failure of a motherboard or powersupply (OEM machines I don't worry about trying to replace PSs).
I currently have around 10 laptops/desktop that are from 2011, probably won't replace them, as I said, until they die. RAM upgrade, sure, HDD to SDD, maybe.
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@JaredBusch said in RAID card for server upgrade:
@RamblingBiped said in RAID card for server upgrade:
@MattSpeller said in RAID card for server upgrade:
@RamblingBiped What are your goals with the upgrades? Maybe there's another way to skin this cat so you can take time off and not sweat it
Primary goal is to get the Hypervisors updated and inside a new case that takes up less space and has redundant power supplies. Hardware RAID was just an additional nice-to-have.
Buy a server from Xbyte anyway. Just skip the memory and HDD and reuse your existing. Assuming it works in a Dell.
Skipping the drives and memory will save half the cost of most basic servers.
Exactly, and if the drives won't fit in a Dell, get Super Micro servers.
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@Dashrender said in RAID card for server upgrade:
@RamblingBiped said in RAID card for server upgrade:
I've finally got that thinking shifted and we're moving toward a unified hardware lifecycle.
What does this mean, exactly?
I used to be of the mindset, auto replace every X years was a good plan. Now I'm to a point where I don't replace unless a machine suffers a failure of a motherboard or powersupply (OEM machines I don't worry about trying to replace PSs).
I currently have around 10 laptops/desktop that are from 2011, probably won't replace them, as I said, until they die. RAM upgrade, sure, HDD to SDD, maybe.
They were just buying components and building a new workstation everytime they hired a new engineer or employee. I've got so many different builds floating around that it is nuts to try and keep track of everything. I'm moving toward one or two different configurations of laptop for ease of management. They are less expensive to maintain, and as they age out I'll just move them into the lab as test systems.
We basically run our systems into the ground as well. Every old desktop that I've replaced has been put back into the wild as a system for an Intern or into a lab for testing.
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OIC, if I retire a machine, it's either going to graveyard or someone is installing Linux on it, somewhere else.
The problem with this though is that you end up with all kinds of different model numbers. HP seems to change models every 3-6 months. Since we only replace as things die now, we will have a scattered different models all over the place.
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Im in the process of upgrading all of our servers to hardware based LSI Cards. They are not cheap, and are a little UI unfriendly, but we have not had a single problem with them and when I had questions during configuration (Because their UI sucks), their support answered immediately and gave me all the information I needed. LSI Cards are nice, the central RAID management is awesome and reduces maintenance costs
