{"id":67,"date":"2005-01-12T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=67"},"modified":"2005-01-13T20:53:22","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T01:53:22","slug":"hp-dl380-and-msa30-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2005\/01\/12\/hp-dl380-and-msa30-array\/","title":{"rendered":"HP DL380 and MSA30 Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/server2.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/server2-thumb.jpg\" align=left vspace=5 hspace=10 width=\"200\" height=\"121\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/a>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be installing if I can find time between interviewing four potential contractors tomorrow.   This file server&#8217;s about a week overdue in the rack.  It&#8217;s been built for days, I just haven&#8217;t had time to get it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inflow.com\/\">Inflow<\/a> data center.   It&#8217;s a pretty good file server including an HP Smart Array 6i internal controller with four 36GB drives configured at RAID 1+0.   The memory is at 4GB with two 3.6GHz. Xeon Processors.  Overkill?  Hefty for file storage to say the least.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/server1.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/server1-thumb.jpg\" align=right vspace=5 hspace=10 width=\"200\" height=\"84\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/a>The MSA30 has seven 72GB drives configured RAID 5 for a usable capacity of 407GB which can be expanded by the Smart Array 642 controller.  Since it&#8217;s a file server this controller&#8217;s only got 64MB of battery backed cache.  For SQL etc. I would only use 256MB of cache on the card and RAID 1+0 regardless of the loss of usable disk space.  After this is in I&#8217;ve got an SQL server and another Citrix box to get installed for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p21.com\">P21 Commerce Center<\/a> test environment.  It all needs to be done by Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be installing if I can find time between interviewing four potential contractors tomorrow. This file server&#8217;s about a week overdue in the rack. It&#8217;s been built for days, I just haven&#8217;t had time to get it to the Inflow data center. It&#8217;s a pretty good file server including an HP Smart Array &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2005\/01\/12\/hp-dl380-and-msa30-array\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HP DL380 and MSA30 Array<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}