Mirfster
Doesn't know what he's talking about
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Hello all,
Just seeing if my first proposed design meets your scrutiny?
Audience
Customer wants to:
FreeNas Server Design
Server - Dell PowerEdge FS12-TY C2100
CPU - Two (2) Intel Xeon E5506 SLBF8 2.13GHz/4MB/4.8GT/s Quad Core LGA1366 CPUs
Memory - 24 GB 1066 Mhz ECC
Controller # 1 - Dell H200 Mezzanine SAS Raid Controller (Flashed to LSI 92118 IT Mode; No Boot BIOS)
Controller # 2 - Dell Perc H700 512MB Cache 6GB Raid w/Battery
Hard Drives (For OS) - Two (2) Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
Hard Drives (For Data Storage) - Twelve (12) Hitachi HUA723030ALA640 3TB 7200RPM 64MB SATAIII (6GB/S) 3.5" (Enterprise Class)
NIC # 1 - Intel 82576 GB Ethernet (On-Board)
NIC # 2 - Intel 82576 GB Ethernet (On-Board)
NIC # 3 - 100Mb Ethernet Dedicated Management Port (IPMI)
NIC # 4 - Chelsio 110-1088-30 10GB 2-Port PCI-E HBA Adapter Card
So may plan is
If there are any design flaws or suggestions; I would be happy to hear from you all. I have been perusing these forums for a bit and appreciate all the effort/knowledge that is put forth.
Thanks!
Just seeing if my first proposed design meets your scrutiny?
Audience
Customer wants to:
- Virtualize their existing instance of SME Server (CentOS Based)
- Have the ability to create a very limited amount of VMs
- Increase their SME Server Backup speeds to a NAS
- Currently they have a Drobo connected over 1 GB
- Backups are so big and slow that they are running into the next day and colliding with previous backups...
- Move away from Drobo, per my suggestion and just too many reasons to list in this thread :)
FreeNas Server Design
Server - Dell PowerEdge FS12-TY C2100
CPU - Two (2) Intel Xeon E5506 SLBF8 2.13GHz/4MB/4.8GT/s Quad Core LGA1366 CPUs
Memory - 24 GB 1066 Mhz ECC
Controller # 1 - Dell H200 Mezzanine SAS Raid Controller (Flashed to LSI 92118 IT Mode; No Boot BIOS)
Controller # 2 - Dell Perc H700 512MB Cache 6GB Raid w/Battery
- This is going to change to a PERC 6/I since for some reason the H700 and H200 are not existing well together on the C2100 (NVRam Errors...)
Hard Drives (For OS) - Two (2) Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
Hard Drives (For Data Storage) - Twelve (12) Hitachi HUA723030ALA640 3TB 7200RPM 64MB SATAIII (6GB/S) 3.5" (Enterprise Class)
NIC # 1 - Intel 82576 GB Ethernet (On-Board)
NIC # 2 - Intel 82576 GB Ethernet (On-Board)
NIC # 3 - 100Mb Ethernet Dedicated Management Port (IPMI)
NIC # 4 - Chelsio 110-1088-30 10GB 2-Port PCI-E HBA Adapter Card
So may plan is
- Setup the two (2) Samsung 850 EVO 250GB in a RAID 1 using the PERC 6/I as the FreeNas OS Drives
- I know this may be a little over-kill; if there are any blatant reasons not to do this; I am all ears
- Will be running FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201509022158
- Connect the twelve (12) hard drives to the C2100 Backplane using the flashed H200
- This will be the Data Storage
- Direct connect the Chelsio to another Server (PowerEdge T310) used only for backup purposes (fast connection)
- PowerEdge T310 will be running ESXi 5.5 Update 3 with a VM running SME Server 9.x
- ESXi will have an additional Virtual Switch (Call it "10 GB Switch") just configured for the QLogic QLE8152 10GB Dual Port PCI-E Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter; only backups will be using this 10 GB connection
- All other traffic will be ran on the default Virtual Switch
- Use the two (2) 1 GB NICs for standard Network connections (to their Switch)
- Leverage LDAP on the SME Server for Permissions
- Two (s) Intel 82576 GB NIC on the C2100 will be used for all standard traffic
If there are any design flaws or suggestions; I would be happy to hear from you all. I have been perusing these forums for a bit and appreciate all the effort/knowledge that is put forth.
Thanks!