Netwalker
Cadet
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- Oct 30, 2014
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Hello!
I'm going to be replacing my home lab which is currently VMware (boss lady has decided it's to loud) with 2 Xenserver hosts and a Freenas unit. I'm looking to use the Freenas unit as either NFS or iSCSI storage for running my VMs. My main purpose is to have a funcational lab environment (few 2008r2/2012 servers running AD, possibly exchange) plus run a few fun things for the house (plex, pbiaf, pfsense mainly). We also have a few TrueNAS units in a few clients production environments and i'd like to be more familiar with them for troubleshooting, reconfiguring and etc. I would like to have 3-4 NICs configured to my iSCSI/NFS switch feeding the 2 Xenhosts (more for learning than function).
My planned build is as follows:
Kingston 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM ECC Yes Unbuffered DDR3 1600 (4)
Rosewill RSV-L4500
SUPERMICRO MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O
SeaSonic S12G-450 450W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD
HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS40003272SN (0S03664) 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache (6)
SanDisk Cruzer Fit 32 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Any advice ?
I'm going to be replacing my home lab which is currently VMware (boss lady has decided it's to loud) with 2 Xenserver hosts and a Freenas unit. I'm looking to use the Freenas unit as either NFS or iSCSI storage for running my VMs. My main purpose is to have a funcational lab environment (few 2008r2/2012 servers running AD, possibly exchange) plus run a few fun things for the house (plex, pbiaf, pfsense mainly). We also have a few TrueNAS units in a few clients production environments and i'd like to be more familiar with them for troubleshooting, reconfiguring and etc. I would like to have 3-4 NICs configured to my iSCSI/NFS switch feeding the 2 Xenhosts (more for learning than function).
My planned build is as follows:
Kingston 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM ECC Yes Unbuffered DDR3 1600 (4)
Rosewill RSV-L4500
SUPERMICRO MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O
SeaSonic S12G-450 450W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD
HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS40003272SN (0S03664) 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache (6)
SanDisk Cruzer Fit 32 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Any advice ?