SCALE has reached the point where I'd like to begin playing with it on a test server that will ultimately replace one of my servers listed in my signature. The new server is likely to be a SuperMicro SSG-6049P-E1CR24L, which is a 4U 24 drive SAS3/SATA3 chassis with X11DPH-T motherboard (Xeon® Scalable Processors, Dual Socket LGA-3647) included. Although it's absolutely overkill for my final application, which is computer backups, media server for the family, various jails & containers, etc., for the next year, it will have SLOG / L2ARC loaded on M.2, probably around 200GB RAM, some SSD for metadata (special) storage and so on for the tests.
So, knowing the needs in production seem to be different from what I need in test, are there general recommendations for a processor from the LGA-3647 family? I will probably just get one for now, unless there is some enterprise test scenario that's not unlikely that could use the two processors.
Thanks!
Also, thought it's not SCALE related, is there a VDEV recommendation for the very large hard drives in the 18TB and up range. On this 24 drive system, I was thinking four RAIDZ2 vdevs of six drives each. Not married to that, though.
So, knowing the needs in production seem to be different from what I need in test, are there general recommendations for a processor from the LGA-3647 family? I will probably just get one for now, unless there is some enterprise test scenario that's not unlikely that could use the two processors.
Thanks!
Also, thought it's not SCALE related, is there a VDEV recommendation for the very large hard drives in the 18TB and up range. On this 24 drive system, I was thinking four RAIDZ2 vdevs of six drives each. Not married to that, though.