@scottalanmiller Thanks! I just read your RAID 100 article the other day.

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that you are probably stuck making an in-person appearance if your colo facility does not offer a KVM hook up for you.

Offered, but if I spin up a new asterisk instance on this new server and migrate my settings, I can can turn off the old one and will need to go on site to reconfigure those drives and install server 2012 data center on it anyway. So I will just do it all at the same time.

Have you done anything with your new server yet?

@creayt said in Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD:

Link seems to not work.

A bit of necromancy there. . .

Make sure that you post back here when you learn more. Everyone is, I imagine, pretty interested in this one.

Something to consider with a VRTX is that that is eight to sixteen Intel Xeon CPUs in a loaded chassis. That is a massive amount of compute power (with very little storage throughput.) So you have the CPU power to handle easily ~400 typical VMs. But the storage capacity and throughput of no more than an R510. Even an R720xd or R730xd has more drive capacity than the VRTX. So the ratio of IOPS and capacity to CPU is wildly different than with normal servers.