My first post (go gentle!) I have about 120 Virtual Servers with my small company spread over 10 Dell R610s and R620s. I am moving away from storing the VMs on each physical server and the plan is to switch to FreeNAS using about 15TB in total storage. I am building this for the future, so this NAS is larger than what I need. I want plenty of redundancy too.
Here's the parts I have so far, is there any areas I should consider flawed or a bottleneck? I am most concerned the LSI 9210 as I see most people say the 9211 is best but I am not sure if that is old Info. I thought about 12GB SAS HBA since the Drives are 12GB SAS but since there are 12 Drives, I doubt 6GB SAS will hold me back.
Supermicro SuperChassis 826BA-R1K28WB (2u x 12 Bay 3.5" on Front, 2 x 2.5" on Back)
Motherboard: X9DRW-3F
RAM: 256GB ECC REG (16 x 16GB)
BACKPLANE: SAS826A (6GB/SEC SAS)
HBA ADAPTERS: 2x LSI 9210-8i (IT Mode)
CPU: 2 x INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E5-2670 V2 TEN CORE 25M CACHE 2.5GHz
HARD DRIVES: 12 x HGST HE8 8TB SAS 12Gb/s Nearline HDD - HUH728080AL5200
+ 2 x Samsung PM983 2.5" 960GB NVMe Enterprise SSD PCIe Gen3 MZQLB960HAJR-00007
NETWORK CARDS: 2 x Chelsio 110-1120-40 PCI-E 2.0 Dual Port 10GBe SFP+ Network Adapter T420-cr
Questions:
1. Are the 9210-8i's ok?
2. Would I use RAM for Cache, or the SSD's?
3. Is this setup decent?
If all goes well in my testing, I will duplicate the setup for Redundancy. I have a good backup system in place as well.
Here's the parts I have so far, is there any areas I should consider flawed or a bottleneck? I am most concerned the LSI 9210 as I see most people say the 9211 is best but I am not sure if that is old Info. I thought about 12GB SAS HBA since the Drives are 12GB SAS but since there are 12 Drives, I doubt 6GB SAS will hold me back.
Supermicro SuperChassis 826BA-R1K28WB (2u x 12 Bay 3.5" on Front, 2 x 2.5" on Back)
Motherboard: X9DRW-3F
RAM: 256GB ECC REG (16 x 16GB)
BACKPLANE: SAS826A (6GB/SEC SAS)
HBA ADAPTERS: 2x LSI 9210-8i (IT Mode)
CPU: 2 x INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E5-2670 V2 TEN CORE 25M CACHE 2.5GHz
HARD DRIVES: 12 x HGST HE8 8TB SAS 12Gb/s Nearline HDD - HUH728080AL5200
+ 2 x Samsung PM983 2.5" 960GB NVMe Enterprise SSD PCIe Gen3 MZQLB960HAJR-00007
NETWORK CARDS: 2 x Chelsio 110-1120-40 PCI-E 2.0 Dual Port 10GBe SFP+ Network Adapter T420-cr
Questions:
1. Are the 9210-8i's ok?
2. Would I use RAM for Cache, or the SSD's?
3. Is this setup decent?
If all goes well in my testing, I will duplicate the setup for Redundancy. I have a good backup system in place as well.
