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post #11 of 13
9/19/12 at 12:09pm
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Incorrect. With Server 2012, there is only two main licensing options. Standard and Datacenter. Standard is what you want if running a server app (SQL, AD DS, DHCP, DNS, etc) and comes with licensing to run 2 VMs. Datacenter edition allows for unlimited VMs. A license for either is only valid on up to 2 CPUs, so if you had a 4P system, it would require two licenses of either (depending on what you are doing with it). I think 9 VMs is that magic number where it is more cost effective to buy Datacenter, instead of Standard licenses.
Foundation edition, as well as Windows Storage Server 2012 is OEM only...so you can't buy that. There is also Server 2012 Essentials, which is basically Windows Home Server mashed with Small Business Server. Licensing for up to 25 users, or something like that...and is $425 for a license to cover 2 CPUs. Lastly, there is the free Hyper-V Server 2012...which is free, and allows for 4 VMs to run on it...but you have to pay for the license of the guest OS (or you could run linux and have a free Hypervisor, and free guests).

Thanks a lot for your right information.
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post #12 of 13
10/25/12 at 11:13pm
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bringing this up from the dead with more questions !

Currently running 3 hitachi 7k3000 in raid 5. I'm not a big fan of only 1 parity drive.

- Can I pick up one of the new toshiba 2tb drives and have it work with the existing hitachi drives, or should I try and hunt down another hitachi ? I can't seem to find one at the moment anymore
- My Dell Perc 5i: how do I update the firmware on this, and with which firmware ? Can I use the LSI MSM to do this ?
- My dell perc 5i doesn't have a working BBU right now. Will said new firmware be ok with that ?
- Assuming I want to pick up some new 3 tb drives, my card won't work for that. Can I just make a 1-drive raid0 and run it that way ? will it even work properly like that ?
- Seems like the card everyone loves, the IBM M1015, is ridiculously expensive for what it is now. Is there a card that would be worth buying, if I need to, for 3tb+ support ?
- How can I find out what's wrong in the LSI MSM ? it just gives me a "needs attention" under Status, but how do I know what it is ?
- Let's say that a drive failed. How would I know this ? will MSM give me an error message, or will windows, or will I just not know until I restart and see what the Dell startup stuff says ? It's running headless..
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post #13 of 13
10/26/12 at 6:08am
If you are using LSI MSM to manage your arrays, and a drive drops out...there will actually be a pop up that says the array is offline, critical, degraded...whatever.

If you don't like one parity drive, and want to add a 4th drive (and stay at 4 drives) I would recommend getting a 4th drive (the toshiba 2tb would be fine), back up your data, recreate the array in a Raid 10 with all 4 drives. You will have the same amount of storage, but you will have 2 drives of redundancy, and there is no parity going on.
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