Hi all,
I have been using FreeNAS for various homelab/POC scenarios. I am looking into whether we should go with FreeNAS for production use.
Requirements:
1U form factor only
<250W peak power usage
>=10TB usable space
iSCSI
Support 60 or so low load VM (ESXi, each VM avg < 5 IOPS)
Support 10 or so 'peaky' VMs (RDS; >20 IOPS per VM for 30 or so minutes per day)
Support 10 or so 'heavy' VMs (avg >20 IOPS)
Network:
Cisco Nexus 3K series switches
Currently for FreeNAS path, I have two ideas:
Idea#1:
SuperMicro SuperServer 6018R-TD8
2 x Xeon E5-2620 v4
512Gb RAM
LSI 9300-8i
8 x 4TB 12G SAS 7.2kRPM in 4 mirror pairs
Intel P3700 400G (ZIL/SLOG)
2 x 64GB SATA DOM Boot disk
Chelsio T580-SO-CR
Idea #2
SuperServer 1028U-TN10RT+
2 x Xeon E5-2620 v4
256Gb RAM
LSI 9300-8i
6 x Samsung PM863 3.84TB SSD in 3 mirror pairs
Intel P3700 400G (ZIL/SLOG)
2 x 64GB SATA DOM Boot disk
Chelsio T580-SO-CR
All users currently use 4th Gen Core-i5 laptops with SATA SSD, and I think they expect the same responsiveness when they login to RDS to use office applications.
Do you think idea #1 will provide good enough IOPS performance to support the VMs and user expectation or idea #2 is the best way to go? Or should I go a totally different route?
Also, is there any active/active or active/passive HA solution for FreeNAS?
My other path is to go with HP StoreVirtual VSA cluster. But HP SSDs are $$$$ and I will need to buy twice the amount of disks to get the same usable space (network RAID1).
Thanks for the help!
I have been using FreeNAS for various homelab/POC scenarios. I am looking into whether we should go with FreeNAS for production use.
Requirements:
1U form factor only
<250W peak power usage
>=10TB usable space
iSCSI
Support 60 or so low load VM (ESXi, each VM avg < 5 IOPS)
Support 10 or so 'peaky' VMs (RDS; >20 IOPS per VM for 30 or so minutes per day)
Support 10 or so 'heavy' VMs (avg >20 IOPS)
Network:
Cisco Nexus 3K series switches
Currently for FreeNAS path, I have two ideas:
Idea#1:
SuperMicro SuperServer 6018R-TD8
2 x Xeon E5-2620 v4
512Gb RAM
LSI 9300-8i
8 x 4TB 12G SAS 7.2kRPM in 4 mirror pairs
Intel P3700 400G (ZIL/SLOG)
2 x 64GB SATA DOM Boot disk
Chelsio T580-SO-CR
Idea #2
SuperServer 1028U-TN10RT+
2 x Xeon E5-2620 v4
256Gb RAM
LSI 9300-8i
6 x Samsung PM863 3.84TB SSD in 3 mirror pairs
Intel P3700 400G (ZIL/SLOG)
2 x 64GB SATA DOM Boot disk
Chelsio T580-SO-CR
All users currently use 4th Gen Core-i5 laptops with SATA SSD, and I think they expect the same responsiveness when they login to RDS to use office applications.
Do you think idea #1 will provide good enough IOPS performance to support the VMs and user expectation or idea #2 is the best way to go? Or should I go a totally different route?
Also, is there any active/active or active/passive HA solution for FreeNAS?
My other path is to go with HP StoreVirtual VSA cluster. But HP SSDs are $$$$ and I will need to buy twice the amount of disks to get the same usable space (network RAID1).
Thanks for the help!