On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 08:23:36PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Are you serious about that? > > You are planning to mix backup, productions workloads and testing on a > single *desktop class* machine? > > If you had a redundant and failsafe virtualization cluster with 2-3 hosts > and redundant and failsafe storage cluster, then maybe – except for the > backup. But for a single desktop class machine I´d advice against putting > such different workloads on it. Especially in a enterprise scenario. > > While you may get away with running test and production VMs on a > virtualization host, I would at least physically (!) separate the backup > so that breaking the machine by testing stuff would not make the backup > inaccessible. And no: RAID is not a backup! So please forget about mixing > a backup with production/testing workloads. Now. > > I personally do not see a strong reason against SoftRAID although I > battery backed up hardware RAID controller can be quite nice for > performance as you can disable cache flushing / barriers. But then that > should be possible with a battery backed up non RAID controller, if there > is any, as well. > > Thanks Stan for asking the basic questions. The answers made obvious to me > that in the current form this can´t be a sane setup. > > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
Yes, I know how that sounds. But testing in my case is installing slim Debian, apache on top of it and running some light web application for a few hours. Nothing intensive. Just to have fresh machine with nothing on it. But if running it sounds too bad I could just run it somewhere else. Thanks for your advice, Martin! On the other hand, monitoring has to be here, no place else to put it. Regards, Veljko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120908185343.ga21...@angelina.example.org
