Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
What is your use case? I ask because ESXi is free again, but it’s probably not a useful skill to learn these days. At least not as much as the competition.
Similarly, 2.5" mechanical drives only make sense for certain use cases. Otherwise I’d get SSDS or a 3.5" DAS.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Personal system but I work in technology, so learning solutions used in industry is always handy.
I want spinning disks as they have shorter life but a wider mean time between failure, which should be better for the RAID I want to configure.
Since SSDs have a definitive number of writes in their lifetime, as I recall it can be kind of dangerous to install several new ones at the same time in something like a raid 1 configuration.
hayalci@fstab.sh 18 hours ago
Instead of a bare metal hypervisor, you can install Kubernetes on it, k3s works on a single node. Lots of use across the industry.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
I’ve heard a lot about Kubernetes, but haven’t actually had to interact with it once incredibly. Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!
peregus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The SSD nowadays have a very high write limit, unless you’ll keep writing data on them constantly, you’ll never worn out. You will have to write about 500 times the whole SSD to wear it out (some thousands for enterprise SSDs).