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Homeserver migration 2015

Why is this upgrade necessary?

An upgrade of the home server has been planed for quite a while. The old system is at 85% usage and the hardware is rather old. So it has to be upgraded in the near future anyway. The reason we are doing it now is that there is a hardware failure in the attached storage system which will most likely force a reboot of the home server. In the worst case it might even stop working. So we might as well move everything to a new server before trying to repair the storage system.

Before and after...

old new
Server Dell M600 Bladeserver Supermicro X9DRD-iF
CPU 2x Xeon E5430 (2x4cores) 2x E5-2650 (2x8cores)
Memory 16GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 64GB PC3-12800R
Network 1Gbit (BCM5708S) 10 GbE (82599ES)
Backend IBM DS4800 SAN @ 4Gbit/s FC Areca ARC-1883 @ 6Gbit/s SAS
RAID-Level RAID5 RAID10
Disks 16x 300GB Fibre Channel 20x 1TB SSD
Capacity 4TB 10TB
Filesystem ext4 ext4
Uptime since 9th of july 2013