<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Angelo McComis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo@mccomis.com">angelo@mccomis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Agree 1000% on your approach... Linux does bonded/LACP very well, but if you can afford 10GigE, you're probably not huddled around a camp stove figuring out how to pay for VMware, right? <br>
</font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Honestly, I don't think that is the reason "not use" vmware. We are paying for RHEL5 now. The bonus is, every server that sits on top of a RHEL virtualization platform also gets support. Also, KVM which sits on RHEL integrates with our extremely sophisticated SNMP monitoring ESXi couldn't be integrated as easily if at all. Finally, we don't have windows desktops so a VMware solution would require a windows desktop somewhere. We don't even have one. VMware server has a web interface, but KVM kills it in performance.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We use DL380s, not exactly cheap, they come with 4 GB interface, so I figure why not use them. Honeslty, most of our apps (web) are read heavy, so DRBD in a shared nothing environment over 3Gb fiber works out nice. The shared nothing really is more important than you might think. We got burned by a SAN about 5 years ago, and we have never been quite the same. Also, we had a hug EMC with a Broacade when I worked at American Greetings and remember that thing broke once and took down the main database. SANS are NOT invincible. Convenient, but not full proof.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My thoughts</div><div>Scott M</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">
</font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Scott McCarty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott.mccarty@gmail.com" target="_blank">scott.mccarty@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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We actually bridge (3) 1GB ethernet bridged together and the performance is pretty good (see the numbers). With (3), 10GB, I think it would be stellar. <div><br></div><div>Scott M<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Angelo McComis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo@mccomis.com" target="_blank">angelo@mccomis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">DRBD - admittedly, I skipped over that one... and Conga Cookbook -- great share there.</font></font></font><br>
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