After posting about how having lots of RAID cache has a positive impact on local disk VDI I thought it best to mash together a little guide on how to get this cache setup so here it is! All screen shots are from a HP DL385 G7 server – other HP server models may have a different UI but the… Read more
Tag: Server
Inside a new Storage Server
For the past few days I’ve been hard at work selecting parts, ordering and building a new storage server for work – the results of which can be seen below. Read on for a full list of parts.
What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server?
For a while I’ve been wondering just how well a PCI-Express Solid State drive would work inside a standard off the shelf rack mounted server. Finally I have been given the chance to find out and as it turns out everything works quite nicely. The solid state in question is a OCZ Revo Drive 3 x2 240GB (from Novatech) and the server is a… Read more
Latest update to HPs servers include 16 cores!
This is old news really but either way HP have updated a number of server models to include the new AMD Opteron 62xx processor series. The beefiest of all being the Opteron 6282SE which comes with 16 cores each packing 2.6ghz of clock speed. Naturally this kind of speed comes at a high TDP (in this case 140W) especially when… Read more