Hey there!
I have 2 G5's rocking here. one with 4x2Tb drives in RAID 5 running CentOS (containing 3Tb effective data)
The other one 2x 2Tb Drives running ESXi with some VM experiments on it. (you shall not be missed)
I would like to combine the 2. And virtualise my home server. + have some room to do experiments with VM's
However i have red up a bit but i still have some questions.
For 1:
The HP Smartarray controller P200i supports logical volumes up to 6Tb. Is this correct?
Anyone here have 6x 2Tb drives in their G5 Drive Cage? Are there workarounds so i don't have to upgrade my RAIDcontroller?
For2:
Logical volume limit 6Tb.. So that means that i could theoretically have 2 RAID5 Arrays with 3x2Tb HDD's ?
For3:
If i decide to upgrade my RaidController. I would take a p800 since that supports RAID10.
Wich would yield a better IOPS score. Good pick?
Any Tips, Hints, Own experiences, are welcome!
Cheers,
Thomas
