John Murry
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- Oct 12, 2015
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Heya all,
I have been checking into making a pure NAS. This will need to serve my family, 4 of us, watching movies, photos, and files. I also want this to serve my Hyper-V and future ESXi environments. Is this achievable?
What the VM's are for:
SharePoint development. I run SharePoint versions 2010, 13 and now 16. So far this takes 10 VM's and are lightly used to develop, test and to show. I like to leave them on 24 / 7 as if they are "production" servers. Still, they are not 100% critical as I have other machines to use if my crap out. I just like to keep them up. I also run a pair of SQL Servers for other web applications, and also a web server.
What I have now waiting to be used is:
Supermicro A1SRi-2558F
32GB ECC RAM
I know this is a Atom CPU so if it will not cut it, then I can go for something else. If this setup will work, I read that the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA card is good with FreeNAS since the motherboard has only one expansion slot, I like to get a card that can hold as many drives as possible. Only question is about the hard drives.
For the VM's I see I have to mirror them. I like to use SSD for this since the speed is better than normal spindles. Or am I off here?
For the file sharing, I guess WD RED's are okay? Getting larger drives say 4 of 4TB is better than 8 of 2TB drives?
What do you all think?
I have been checking into making a pure NAS. This will need to serve my family, 4 of us, watching movies, photos, and files. I also want this to serve my Hyper-V and future ESXi environments. Is this achievable?
What the VM's are for:
SharePoint development. I run SharePoint versions 2010, 13 and now 16. So far this takes 10 VM's and are lightly used to develop, test and to show. I like to leave them on 24 / 7 as if they are "production" servers. Still, they are not 100% critical as I have other machines to use if my crap out. I just like to keep them up. I also run a pair of SQL Servers for other web applications, and also a web server.
What I have now waiting to be used is:
Supermicro A1SRi-2558F
32GB ECC RAM
I know this is a Atom CPU so if it will not cut it, then I can go for something else. If this setup will work, I read that the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA card is good with FreeNAS since the motherboard has only one expansion slot, I like to get a card that can hold as many drives as possible. Only question is about the hard drives.
For the VM's I see I have to mirror them. I like to use SSD for this since the speed is better than normal spindles. Or am I off here?
For the file sharing, I guess WD RED's are okay? Getting larger drives say 4 of 4TB is better than 8 of 2TB drives?
What do you all think?