BUILD My First NAS/ESXi Build

[SRT1975]

Hey Guys,

I've jumped the gun a little bit and have already ordered the following:

1 x Supermicro MBD-X10SRM-F-SINGLE
1 x Crucial CT4K32G4RFD4213 DDR4, 128 GB (4 x 32 GB), DIMM, 288-Pin, 2133 MHz, PC4-17000, CL 15, 1.2 V
1 x Noctua NH-U12DX i4 High Performance Intel Xeon CPU Cooler, 120mm
1 x 650W Seasonic X-Series, Full Modular, 80PLUS Gold, ATX, PSU
1 x Samsung 250GB 960 Evo PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive/SSD MZ-V6E250BW
3 x 4TB Seagate ST4000VN000 NAS, SATA 6GB/s, 5900RPM, 64Mb Cache, 24x7, 8ms NCQ OEM (Will be upgraded to 6)
1 x Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Midi Tower Case
1 x Intel Xeon 2620 V4 2,10GHZ LGA2011 3 20MB Cache
1 x Supermicro IPass to 4 SATA Cable CBL-0294L

Already Own
2 x 1TB Samsung SSD SATA

I was initally going to install ESXi on the NVMe Drive, but I think this might be a waste. I've been reading on here that a USB stick might be adequate.
I hope to run between 10 and 15 Window VM's, though not neccesarily all at once. Will the CPU be sufficient for this as well as running FreeNas/Plex?

FreeNas will reside in a virtual machine and will utilise the 4TB NAS Drives.
With reference to https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/my-dream-system-i-think.41072/
I'll be setting aside 16GB RAM and locking 2 CPU's for FreeNas.

I'll also be setting up a Plex VM. My plan would be to access the NAS Storage, though I have very little knowledge on Plex.

Ideally I would like this system as quiet as possible, if not silent. I'm pretty sure I need to change/add fans within the case.

Have I made a boo boo?
Also what would be a good UPS for the above?

Many Thanks,

SRT.

 

[brando56894]

I'd say that's more than adequate. I had 6 VMs (FreeNAS 9.10, FreeNAS 10 Nightlies, a low traffic webserver, Usenet Apps VM, SSH Jail and Plex) running on ESXi using a Xeon D 1540 and had a bunch of cycles left over (like 3-5 GHz used out of 16 GHz). I would suggest giving a little more RAM to FreeNAS in order to grow your ARC, that is as long as your VMs don't suffer since Windows loves to gobble up RAM compared to Linux.