Netflow Nfsen Server Hardware

Thu Jan 17 16:16:51 UTC 2013

christopher.morrow at gmail.com wrote on 01/17/2013 11:01:06 AM:

> From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
> To: Joe Loiacono/USA/CSC at CSC
> Cc: Tim Calvin <tcalvin at tlsn.net>, "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Date: 01/17/2013 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Netflow Nfsen Server Hardware
> Sent by: christopher.morrow at gmail.com
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Joe Loiacono <jloiacon at csc.com> wrote:
> > Tim Calvin <tcalvin at tlsn.net> wrote on 01/16/2013 05:51:11 PM:
> >
> >> PowerEdge R610 -
> >>
> >>     2x Intel E5540, 2.53GHz Quad Core Processor
> >>
> >>     32GB RAM
> >>
> >>     2x 300gb 10k 2.5" SAS HDD
> >
> > Since netflow processing is generally I/O bound, you may want to 
invest in
> > 15K drives.
> 
> I had suggested off-list that perhaps primary storage as SSD was a
> better path, is there a reason to not do that? (with some larger
> storage on spinning-media for historical storage/query).

Nope, great suggestion. Just a cost consideration ...