> From: Brad Knowles [mailto:[email protected]] > > I'm confused. How much did your servers cost? [etc]
All good points, but... I always start by doing and learning things at home. I always guinea pig myself before staking my reputation or career on some solution for a client. When I come into some place, and I act all senior IT guy-ish, and I say, "buy this, buy that," they expect that I know what I'm doing. I can't afford mistakes, and whatever I'm building for them, I'm going to do it repeatedly ad-nauseum for them and other clients. That means, whatever the cost, I always need to maximize ROI. If I were just doing it once, I would do as you say, take the safe path, buy the 10G because I know it's going to work without issue. For the moment, the systems that I have my sights directly set on, are for academia. In my basement. So $1,000 out of my pocket is very real to me. I am running (free) ESXi, and I am using workstation-class hardware. No server-grade rackmount systems yet. I am very much in favor of ESXi in terms of value for my customers. But ESXi is crippled when it comes to local storage, or backups. ZFS works wonders to solving both of these problems, but then we're talking about 2 servers, with an interconnect between them. With repetition, it becomes worth while to explore the options and try to find something cheaper and more effective than the 10Ge. I mean ... 6Gbit sata controllers are $30. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
