atomique90
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- Joined
- Jul 13, 2018
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Hello FreeNAS-Community,
I plan to build up a new NAS Server to shutdown my old Iomega-NAS. My plan is, to buy a Dell R720 with 16 Slots (I want it 19" for my rack) and build it up for ESXi and FreeNAS.
Plan:
- Use 6 HDDs for ESXi-Datastore (RAID10)
- Use 10 HDDs for FreeNAS (I want to passthrough them to the machine, running FreeNAS)
Questions:
- Is this possible? I heard I cant configure some disks to a RAID and the other ones not
- Which RAID-Controller should be the best for this scenario? Should I split it into 2 RAID-COntrollers / HBA to get it running?
I know that I can upgrade my Dell Server with H310 and H720p Controllers, but they told me on reddit, that I cant use passthrough on the 720p and the H310 is not so good. So I thought, okay.. lets make this possible with external cards!
Available Ports in that server should be 1x PCIe x16 Full Profile - 3x PCIe x8 Full Profile - 3x PCIe x8 Low.
Idea:
- How about two Broadcom 9211-8i + 1 SAS Extender? I could do the following:
- Card0: Connect 6 Drives to create a Datastore for ESXi
- Card1: Connect SAS Extender and 10 Drives to this connector to passthrough them to FreeNAS
I know.. you may ask, why dont you use an dedicated server for that FreeNAS-Stuff? I already got an Dell R420 ESXi and I want to merge this machine to one "big" machine. Its a homelab and I dont want to run a bunch of machines - just to try to keep the costs as "cheap" as possible.
Maybe you guys can help me out with this.
Thank you!
Atomique90
PS.: Let me know if you need further information!
I plan to build up a new NAS Server to shutdown my old Iomega-NAS. My plan is, to buy a Dell R720 with 16 Slots (I want it 19" for my rack) and build it up for ESXi and FreeNAS.
Plan:
- Use 6 HDDs for ESXi-Datastore (RAID10)
- Use 10 HDDs for FreeNAS (I want to passthrough them to the machine, running FreeNAS)
Questions:
- Is this possible? I heard I cant configure some disks to a RAID and the other ones not
- Which RAID-Controller should be the best for this scenario? Should I split it into 2 RAID-COntrollers / HBA to get it running?
I know that I can upgrade my Dell Server with H310 and H720p Controllers, but they told me on reddit, that I cant use passthrough on the 720p and the H310 is not so good. So I thought, okay.. lets make this possible with external cards!
Available Ports in that server should be 1x PCIe x16 Full Profile - 3x PCIe x8 Full Profile - 3x PCIe x8 Low.
Idea:
- How about two Broadcom 9211-8i + 1 SAS Extender? I could do the following:
- Card0: Connect 6 Drives to create a Datastore for ESXi
- Card1: Connect SAS Extender and 10 Drives to this connector to passthrough them to FreeNAS
I know.. you may ask, why dont you use an dedicated server for that FreeNAS-Stuff? I already got an Dell R420 ESXi and I want to merge this machine to one "big" machine. Its a homelab and I dont want to run a bunch of machines - just to try to keep the costs as "cheap" as possible.
Maybe you guys can help me out with this.
Thank you!
Atomique90
PS.: Let me know if you need further information!