Windows 10

[Devils Horse]

* I built my server class machine at home..........I use a LSI Hardware Raid Controller. I also have one of them as a backup controller, still in the box. It has updated bios, and drivers IN the box for Linux, Centos, Windows 7, 8, 10....Just in case.

* Hardware Raid 5 with 5 500gb solid state Samsung 840's.

* Hardware Raid 5 simply because it is FAST, and using HW controller, means if I lose the motherboard, I'm not losing the raid, and I can also dual boot linux or windows or windows 10, or bootable thumbdrive centos, etc, etc, etc, and still see the raid controller. REALLY important for me. .

* Backed up to Raid 0 on another box.

* I should tell you about my software raid 5 array of thumbdrives.....that was fun .

* Redundancy doesn't keep me up at night. But I know I will not lose stuff I've been keeping for 10-20 years. . Digital Pics, Videos, etc, etc.

Hey, I'm a DBA, I live and breathe backups .

Later,

geo

Noice, very noice. Smart RAID controllers will very likely save your bacon, they've saved mine a few times in the past.

Just run vmWare ESX (open source version used to be free, prolly still is) and run all the machines at once. You got 2 TB of Raid 5 disk, and a server. Might need more memory unless you have a bunch. Snapshots, and all the other cool stuff make virtual machines the only way to go.

BTW, you can't help it if you're a DBA. Is Hindi your first language or English?

[GeoFisher]

Noice, very noice. Smart RAID controllers will very likely save your bacon, they've saved mine a few times in the past.

Just run vmWare ESX (open source version used to be free, prolly still is) and run all the machines at once. You got 2 TB of Raid 5 disk, and a server. Might need more memory unless you have a bunch. Snapshots, and all the other cool stuff make virtual machines the only way to go.

BTW, you can't help it if you're a DBA. Is Hindi your first language or English?

I have a bunch of VMWare in the shop at work. All on gigantic HP servers. And we stack them VM's high....really high

Later,

Geo

[Devils Horse]

I have a bunch of VMWare in the shop at work. All on gigantic HP servers. And we stack them VM's high....really high

Later,

Geo

Used to do that stuff, used IBM and Dell hardware. Hundreds of VM's, vCenter and plenty of toys. Also set up SANs (EMC, Brocade, Cisco).

Network Eng now. In South Carolina working on the problematic wireless infrastructure (Cisco, Motorola/Zebra) at one of our plants. In deep sh...uh weeds right at the moment.