viniciusferrao
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Hello,
I'm a little lost on how to configure storages to serve some VMware ESXi clients.
First of all let's describe what I have here:
Supermicro X9SCM-F with Xeon E3-1240 V2 and 32GB of ECC DDR3 at 1600MHz
Intel RS2WC080 flashed as LSI 9211-8i in IT mode
Supermicro Enclosure with 24 drive bays (and two internal)
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Card with iSCSI Support
24x Seagate 7200RPM 3TB SATA Disks (ST3000DM001)
4x Western Digital VelociRaptor 10k RPM 1TB (WD1000DHTZ)
2x Western Digital VelociRaptor 10k RPM 600GB (WD6000HLHX)
2x Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A 120GB
So this is my actual hardware. Of course we can't put all the disk on the enclosure, and I would like to know what is the best we can have with this hardware.
I was thinking in a 10K RPM pool with the four 1TB drives using RAID-Z and another pool with the remaining twenty 7200RPM disk, leaving four disks and the two 600GB Velociraptors for other use in other machines.
Since we have two large SSD's for ZIL, I don't know if the 10k RPM disks are necessary.
Another problem is: I don't know if RAID-Z will be fast enough to handle the Virtual Machines over iSCSI.
So I'm here to listen your thoughts and suggestions.
Thanks in advance,
I'm a little lost on how to configure storages to serve some VMware ESXi clients.
First of all let's describe what I have here:
Supermicro X9SCM-F with Xeon E3-1240 V2 and 32GB of ECC DDR3 at 1600MHz
Intel RS2WC080 flashed as LSI 9211-8i in IT mode
Supermicro Enclosure with 24 drive bays (and two internal)
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Card with iSCSI Support
24x Seagate 7200RPM 3TB SATA Disks (ST3000DM001)
4x Western Digital VelociRaptor 10k RPM 1TB (WD1000DHTZ)
2x Western Digital VelociRaptor 10k RPM 600GB (WD6000HLHX)
2x Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A 120GB
So this is my actual hardware. Of course we can't put all the disk on the enclosure, and I would like to know what is the best we can have with this hardware.
I was thinking in a 10K RPM pool with the four 1TB drives using RAID-Z and another pool with the remaining twenty 7200RPM disk, leaving four disks and the two 600GB Velociraptors for other use in other machines.
Since we have two large SSD's for ZIL, I don't know if the 10k RPM disks are necessary.
Another problem is: I don't know if RAID-Z will be fast enough to handle the Virtual Machines over iSCSI.
So I'm here to listen your thoughts and suggestions.
Thanks in advance,