Stux
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LSI 2008 card + the Intel RSV240 is still a good option for connecting 24 bays.
One port of the SAS card goes to one row of bays. These are your fastest bays.
The other port goes to the Intel SAS Expander. Then the remaining ports go to the rest of your bays.
If you had SSDs that you wanted to put in bays, you'd put them on the bays directly connected to the SAS card, as they would get full 6gbps each. The other bays all share 24gbps.
And this leaves all your motherboards on board SATA for whatever.
You can then pass-through the SAS card into VMware or some other hypervisor if you so choose.
One port of the SAS card goes to one row of bays. These are your fastest bays.
The other port goes to the Intel SAS Expander. Then the remaining ports go to the rest of your bays.
If you had SSDs that you wanted to put in bays, you'd put them on the bays directly connected to the SAS card, as they would get full 6gbps each. The other bays all share 24gbps.
And this leaves all your motherboards on board SATA for whatever.
You can then pass-through the SAS card into VMware or some other hypervisor if you so choose.