[cisco-voip] UCS C210 Replace 146 GB Disk in RAID5 with 300 GB Disk

[Charles Goldsmith]

Lelio, if you are using those be7k's for UC apps, your limiting factor is
always the CPU cores, you won't run out of drive space.  Also, the be7K-h
is a workhorse of a server, fastest one I've ever built a cluster on.  4
independent arrays means you can easily do maintenance on one app without
affecting the performance of another, assuming you separate your apps
between arrays and stagger them out.  I did 4 simultaneous installs on one,
each app on it's own partition and they were all done in under 2 hours.

Sadly, the pricepoint on the H isn't there for most customers.  the M is
nice, but only has 2 of the arrays, but I'll take an H for an install any
day!

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

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> The idea of RAID drives and managing the different volumes always had me
> on the fence on how to do things. In a perfect world, I’d stick with one
> big RAID 6 array with a spare on the shelf.
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> The BE7K servers I ordered were delivered with 4 RAID 5 arrays.
> Personally, while I can appreciate separating the arrays, I don’t like
> losing that extra space and managing which volume to put images on is a
> pain.
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> I’ll admit, I looked at RAID 10 (when I was first reading the TRC specs)
> and was confused to heck. I did finally understand things after referring
> to a colleague, but it was a lot of drawing out.
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> I will say this, RAID isn’t gonna protect you if you don’t have platform
> monitoring on. You need to know the second a drive fails so you can proceed
> accordingly.
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> Also, if the ever do construction in your computer room, do yourself a
> favour, go to the hardware store, buy a 9.99 loose fibre furnace filter and
> stick it in front of your air intakes.
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> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf
> Of *Charles Goldsmith
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 14, 2017 9:48 AM
> *To:* Ryan Huff <ryanhuff at outlook.com>
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] UCS C210 Replace 146 GB Disk in RAID5 with
> 300 GB Disk
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> I've seen one URE fail in a raid 5 resilvering process, years ago on a DG
> system.  Had to rebuild and restore from backup, fun times.
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> I agree Ryan, on a TRC system and RMA a drive, you stick with it.
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> From my reading on TRC, you can rebuild as a RAID 10 and get faster
> speeds, but you lose some space in the process.
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> On my personal systems, I'm using RAID 10 everywhere.
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> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Ryan Huff <ryanhuff at outlook.com> wrote:
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> As I’ve read and understood; it isn’t due to actual functionality though.
> It is as you say, due mostly to longer rebuild times (indexing a physically
> larger geometry than the rest of the array members, for a smaller logical
> geometry) and the risk (rare IMO) to the rest of the array (as a rebuild
> will stress the array and could cause other, near-death disks to fail
> thereby causing the array to fail). It also wastes the extra horsepower of
> the disk since the existing RAID can’t capitalize on the resources of the
> larger disk.
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> So in a case of, would you go out and buy a new disk that way .... I’d say
> no; but if that is the result of a covered RMA, I’d say go for it.
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> I’m no diskologist though ... just based on my own experiences of what has
> worked for me for the last couple of decades ... and I’ve never lost a
> server ... outside of that one time when my pants pocket snagged the
> release on the 2nd disk in a R5 on my way out the door ... bad memories.
>
> -Ryan
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> On Nov 14, 2017, at 9:03 AM, Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org>
> wrote:
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> Keep in mind, RAID 5 is ok for smaller disks, but larger disks it's no
> longer recommended, but sadly, the best article about it is from Dell:
> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/08/14/
> new-equallogic-raid-tech-report-considerations-and-best-practices-released
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> With bigger disks, it's even said that RAID 6 is no longer good enough,
> due to large rebuild times in case of a failure.  http://www.zdnet.
> com/blog/storage/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/805
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> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Ryan Huff <ryanhuff at outlook.com> wrote:
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> Reto,
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> Seek/rpm speeds and media type (flash, sata ... etc) are usually what
> matter the most for RAID disks. If your only difference is total storage
> capacity, the bigger disk will usually work just fine, your just gonna
> waste the additional 154GB of space (because the RAID will only provision
> 146GB of that 300GB disk).
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> Just remember on a RAID 5, don’t pull/lose more that 1 disk at a time ....
> painful lesson long ago I share over beer every now and then.
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> -Ryan
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> On Nov 14, 2017, at 8:23 AM, Reto Gassmann <voip at mrga.ch> wrote:
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> Hallo
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> We have a UCS C210 Server with 10x146 GB Disks. One of the Disks failed
> and I got a 300 GB replacement Disk from Cisco.
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> Is that a problem if I replace the defect 146 Disk in the RAID 5 with a
> 300 GB Disk?
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> Thanks for help
>
> Regards Reto
>
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