HI all,
Been reading and trying to get up to speed in hopes of making the right decisions for either upgrading or replacing my existing freeNas system.
Primary Use Case
Existing Hardware
Wants
As i understand, I will likely
Need to
if I drop the Optane, should I still make use of a cache device?
what processor should I upgrade to?
What is the recommended disk layout for VMware when I'm trying to even out Read and writes speeds.
Been reading and trying to get up to speed in hopes of making the right decisions for either upgrading or replacing my existing freeNas system.
Primary Use Case
- iScsi target for 3x VMware hosts via 10GBE networking
- the FreeNas server has a LAG setup for 20GBE networking
- File server for 2-3 work stations
- Video Editing
- File storage (video files, pics, and office documents)
- replicates important documents to Cloud storage
Existing Hardware
- i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz (4 cores)
- 12x Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - CT500MX500SSD1(Z)
- Intel Optane SSD 900P Series (280GB, AIC PCIe x4, 3D XPoint) (Cache)
- 1x 250 GB Crucial SSD for Log storage
- Intel 82599ES dual port 10GBE network card
- 16GB Memory
Wants
- Push closer to the 10GBE saturation
- introduce snap shows to slower, spinning storage in additional to VMware snaps
As i understand, I will likely
Need to
- Upgrade the CPU
- Get ECC memory and more of it
- drop the Optane SSD since I already have SSD's
if I drop the Optane, should I still make use of a cache device?
what processor should I upgrade to?
What is the recommended disk layout for VMware when I'm trying to even out Read and writes speeds.