Lunchbox Larry
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- Apr 28, 2015
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Dear forum,
This is my first post here, and I've spent a good deal of time reading before making this post.
I am attempting to build a large FreeNAS system for the purpose of being a datastore for ESXi. The hardware I have at my disposal is a bit of a hodge-podge of recycled components, but at least has some potential for performance. I'd like to post the build specs here and would be very grateful if more experienced FreeNAS users could give me a sanity check and/or suggest configuration specs for this system.
Here's the hardware list:
Server:
Dell PowerEdge 810
4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7560 @ 2.27GHz (total 32 cores, 64 threads)
64GB DDR3 ECC RAM
2x 4Gb Dual port fiberchannel HBAs (4 ports)
3x NetApp DS14-MKII Drive shelves populated with HITACHI HUA721010KLA33SX A90A (42 disks total)
4 port PCI Intel 1GB NIC (NOT using the Dell Broadcom NICs as they seem to really hate FreeBSD)
The way I currently have them set up is with redundant multipathing, so there are 4 paths to each physical disk.
Some of my questions:
1) Would this hardware be capable of supporting a few dozen VMs?
2) Is there any way of monitoring drive shelf status (power supply, fans, etc) within FreeNAS?
3) If this system would be theoretically capable of handling this type of load, what partioning and pool scheme would you recommend for so many drives?
Thank you for your consideration, and I apologize if any of my questions are redundant to those already answered on this board (I couldn't find any).
Regards,
Jamie
This is my first post here, and I've spent a good deal of time reading before making this post.
I am attempting to build a large FreeNAS system for the purpose of being a datastore for ESXi. The hardware I have at my disposal is a bit of a hodge-podge of recycled components, but at least has some potential for performance. I'd like to post the build specs here and would be very grateful if more experienced FreeNAS users could give me a sanity check and/or suggest configuration specs for this system.
Here's the hardware list:
Server:
Dell PowerEdge 810
4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7560 @ 2.27GHz (total 32 cores, 64 threads)
64GB DDR3 ECC RAM
2x 4Gb Dual port fiberchannel HBAs (4 ports)
3x NetApp DS14-MKII Drive shelves populated with HITACHI HUA721010KLA33SX A90A (42 disks total)
4 port PCI Intel 1GB NIC (NOT using the Dell Broadcom NICs as they seem to really hate FreeBSD)
The way I currently have them set up is with redundant multipathing, so there are 4 paths to each physical disk.
Some of my questions:
1) Would this hardware be capable of supporting a few dozen VMs?
2) Is there any way of monitoring drive shelf status (power supply, fans, etc) within FreeNAS?
3) If this system would be theoretically capable of handling this type of load, what partioning and pool scheme would you recommend for so many drives?
Thank you for your consideration, and I apologize if any of my questions are redundant to those already answered on this board (I couldn't find any).
Regards,
Jamie