Ready to build my first ZM
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:42 pm
Hi guys. Hopefully I am posting this in a relevant location.
I about to pull the trigger in my first IP cam to connect with the latest build of ZM.
I am going to be monitoring the front of my house, specifically hoping to catch whoever it is that keeps trying to steal stuff from ours cars. The cars are about 18 feet from our front door, where the camera will be. Eventually, another one will go in the back of the house.
I chose to go with a Reolink RLC-411, for its great reviews and price that I can afford.
The ZM will be installed as a VM on an HP rack server with a single Xeon 5640 and 32gb of Ram. An additional CPU can be installed and is in future plans. This server also functions as my Plex server and domain controller.
I have 4 x 2Tb enterprises level drives, running in RAID 10, going ~4Tb usable space. About 1.5tb is currently used by video and document content. Separate 500 GB drives in Raid 1 are installed for OS needs. 7 additional drivers can be added for extra storage.
Questions:
Is the server powerful enough to support 2 of these cameras running on ZM?
How should I build the VM? More specifically, recommend Linux distro or what image to use? How many vCPU to allocate and how many GB of Ram to reserve?
Any ideas on how much storage needs to be allocated for 2 to 3 days of recording? The camera is a 4MP 1440p. Trying to see if I should just order 2 more 2TB drives and create a Raid 1 out of them for this purpose.
The camera is a good choice, right? Anything else in that sub $100 range that would do a better job?
Thanks for any of your tips and suggestions. I'm excited to get going and have a new tech project to work on next weekend:)
I about to pull the trigger in my first IP cam to connect with the latest build of ZM.
I am going to be monitoring the front of my house, specifically hoping to catch whoever it is that keeps trying to steal stuff from ours cars. The cars are about 18 feet from our front door, where the camera will be. Eventually, another one will go in the back of the house.
I chose to go with a Reolink RLC-411, for its great reviews and price that I can afford.
The ZM will be installed as a VM on an HP rack server with a single Xeon 5640 and 32gb of Ram. An additional CPU can be installed and is in future plans. This server also functions as my Plex server and domain controller.
I have 4 x 2Tb enterprises level drives, running in RAID 10, going ~4Tb usable space. About 1.5tb is currently used by video and document content. Separate 500 GB drives in Raid 1 are installed for OS needs. 7 additional drivers can be added for extra storage.
Questions:
Is the server powerful enough to support 2 of these cameras running on ZM?
How should I build the VM? More specifically, recommend Linux distro or what image to use? How many vCPU to allocate and how many GB of Ram to reserve?
Any ideas on how much storage needs to be allocated for 2 to 3 days of recording? The camera is a 4MP 1440p. Trying to see if I should just order 2 more 2TB drives and create a Raid 1 out of them for this purpose.
The camera is a good choice, right? Anything else in that sub $100 range that would do a better job?
Thanks for any of your tips and suggestions. I'm excited to get going and have a new tech project to work on next weekend:)