Hey, so I am pretty much done picking out parts for my SFF server where I intend to have a few virtualized servers running, one of which will be FreeNAS. I want to be able to do a PCI passthrough on the SATA controller (hence the separate card).
I think I'll dedicate around 16GB of ram to FreeNAS and use the other 16GB for other VMs, the NAS will however experience a very light load I assume, as it's only me using it.
If you have any experience with the parts I picked I'm very interested in hearing what you have to say about it. And more specifically if you have heard PCI passthrough will not work well with these components. I will also try to do a PCI passthrough of a Radeon HD5450 so I can use a VM as a medicenter on my TV.
(I know its not recommended to virtualize FreeNAS, but I'm willing to take the performance hit so I can run other servers on the same box.)
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My Current build:
Case - Lian Li PC-V354B
PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 650W
MOBO - Intel S1200V3RPS
CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
Memory
Kingston ValueRAM TS DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz ECC CL11 8GB (KVR16LE11/8)
or (less likely)
Crucial DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz ECC 2x8GB (CT2KIT102472BD160B)
SATA Controller - ServeRAID M1015 that I will crossflash as per jgreco's recommendation.
Storage - (4x in RAIDZ1) WD Red 3TB (Will probably grow)
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Open to changes in the build if you have anything to recommend.
I think I'll dedicate around 16GB of ram to FreeNAS and use the other 16GB for other VMs, the NAS will however experience a very light load I assume, as it's only me using it.
If you have any experience with the parts I picked I'm very interested in hearing what you have to say about it. And more specifically if you have heard PCI passthrough will not work well with these components. I will also try to do a PCI passthrough of a Radeon HD5450 so I can use a VM as a medicenter on my TV.
(I know its not recommended to virtualize FreeNAS, but I'm willing to take the performance hit so I can run other servers on the same box.)
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My Current build:
Case - Lian Li PC-V354B
PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 650W
MOBO - Intel S1200V3RPS
CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
Memory
Kingston ValueRAM TS DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz ECC CL11 8GB (KVR16LE11/8)
or (less likely)
Crucial DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz ECC 2x8GB (CT2KIT102472BD160B)
SATA Controller - ServeRAID M1015 that I will crossflash as per jgreco's recommendation.
Never used one of these before so I'm a little curious on how to connect SATA disks to it.
Storage - (4x in RAIDZ1) WD Red 3TB (Will probably grow)
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Open to changes in the build if you have anything to recommend.