Scharbag
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Currently, I have a 480GB mirror of SSDs shared over iSCSI to FreeNAS. It works well but man oh man do VMs eat up space like it is going out of style.
My question is this: I have 2 spare 4TB spinning disks, 2 480GB SSDs and 2 80GB SSDs that I can, without too much fuss, free up to make another pool for the purpose of providing storage to ESXi. I was thinking of creating a 4TB mirror that also has a mirrored ZIL/SLOG made from the 80GB SSDs. That would still leave me the 480GB SSDs to do something with. I could use the 480GB SSDs for L2ARC but I think that would be a waste given I have 64GB of RAM reserved for FreeNAS and my server is for home use.
Another option may possibly be to add the 2 80GB drives to my existing Z2 pool as ZIL/SLOG devices and then just use my production pool to provide VM space to ESXi. That would allow me to keep the 2 4TB drives assigned as spares to my production and backup pools. This still leaves me with 2 480GB SSDs that I can continue to use as a fast mirrored pool for whatever I want.
My host also has 2 275GB SSDs connected to SATA so ESXi has native storage but those drives have no redundancy at all. Prefer to use them only to boot FreeNAS VM.
Given the above, what should I do? Any other configurations that I should consider?
Thanks,
My question is this: I have 2 spare 4TB spinning disks, 2 480GB SSDs and 2 80GB SSDs that I can, without too much fuss, free up to make another pool for the purpose of providing storage to ESXi. I was thinking of creating a 4TB mirror that also has a mirrored ZIL/SLOG made from the 80GB SSDs. That would still leave me the 480GB SSDs to do something with. I could use the 480GB SSDs for L2ARC but I think that would be a waste given I have 64GB of RAM reserved for FreeNAS and my server is for home use.
Another option may possibly be to add the 2 80GB drives to my existing Z2 pool as ZIL/SLOG devices and then just use my production pool to provide VM space to ESXi. That would allow me to keep the 2 4TB drives assigned as spares to my production and backup pools. This still leaves me with 2 480GB SSDs that I can continue to use as a fast mirrored pool for whatever I want.
My host also has 2 275GB SSDs connected to SATA so ESXi has native storage but those drives have no redundancy at all. Prefer to use them only to boot FreeNAS VM.
Given the above, what should I do? Any other configurations that I should consider?
Thanks,