Hello everyone,
My IT department is looking to purchase the Dell PowerEdge C2100 seen here: http://www.deepdiscountservers.com/dell-poweredge-c2100-fs12-ty-lff-12-port.html
The purpose would be to use this server mainly for storage for our VM cluster. We currently have 3 host ESXi servers and would like to use this new C2100 as a SAN for those 3 ESXi host servers.
We wanted to get advice and ask if this is possible with this hardware:
Processor: Intel Xeon X5650 2.66GHz 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 95W Hex-Core BX80614X5650
RAM: 48 GB DDR3 1066 ECC
12 Hard Drives with 2 TB each
We we're also told that we should NOT use a hardware based raid but instead use a software based Raid Z2.
Would we encounter any problems using this box as a SAN for our VM host servers? Any other recommendations for our build?
Thank you all for your time and assistance!
Best,
Steven
My IT department is looking to purchase the Dell PowerEdge C2100 seen here: http://www.deepdiscountservers.com/dell-poweredge-c2100-fs12-ty-lff-12-port.html
The purpose would be to use this server mainly for storage for our VM cluster. We currently have 3 host ESXi servers and would like to use this new C2100 as a SAN for those 3 ESXi host servers.
We wanted to get advice and ask if this is possible with this hardware:
Processor: Intel Xeon X5650 2.66GHz 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 95W Hex-Core BX80614X5650
RAM: 48 GB DDR3 1066 ECC
12 Hard Drives with 2 TB each
We we're also told that we should NOT use a hardware based raid but instead use a software based Raid Z2.
Would we encounter any problems using this box as a SAN for our VM host servers? Any other recommendations for our build?
Thank you all for your time and assistance!
Best,
Steven