[CentOS] CentOS 6.4 Installation on Dell R720

[Arun Khan]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
<kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am planning to install CentOS 6.4 on Dell R720 which has hardware raid
> card and 6 hard disk slots available.
>
> I have planned with the below set up :-
>
> *2 Hard disks configured in RAID 1 for installing OS

What is the HDD size?   For a base OS + MySQL server, a 4GB SATA Disk
on Module (DoM) may be sufficient.

> *
> *4 Hard disks configured in RAID 10  for data drive.*
>

Again, hopefully, you have sized these disks for sufficient space for
the DB files, presuming you will mount this device on /var/lib/mysql.

> Please suggest and recommend if the above approach is correct and let me
> know if i am missing anything which is crucial to set up a production
> server. This server will host MySQL DB server.

You may want to put /tmp, /var/tmp/, /var/log on separate partitions -
1G, 1G, 3G, respectively.   You can "steal" this kind of space by
creating a LV on your RAID10 device and carving it up as above with
the rest for your MySQL files.

HTH,
-- Arun Khan