Hi folks,
my current server (signature) might need to be replaced with something new, something fresh!
would you mind to share your thoughts:
CPU:
Intel Xenon Silver 4310
12 core, 3.3GHz
Motherboard:
Supermicro X12SPi-TF
Usecase:
Basic use case is to store data, fast VMs, fast iSCSI. Together with the VMs it shall be an all in one box
ESXi Hypervisor shall host:
6x 10 TB spinning rust passed thru to Truenas -> can onboards controller be passed thru to truenas?
HDD shall be smb storage as Raid Z2
Asus hyper m.2 equipped with 4x 2tb NVMe SSD -> passed thru to truenas
mirrored 2x2tb shall be iscsi
mirrored 2x 2tb shall be fast NFS for VMs
Priority points (1 low - 10 max)
10 - Data integrity
8 - Power consumption
7- Networking speed
6 - Cost of procurement (budget for CPU, RAM, Motherboard is ~2k USD, the less the better)
5 - Cpu speed (usually it is close to idle)
Questions:
open discussion highly appreciated!
my current server (signature) might need to be replaced with something new, something fresh!
would you mind to share your thoughts:
CPU:
Intel Xenon Silver 4310
12 core, 3.3GHz
Motherboard:
Supermicro X12SPi-TF
Usecase:
Basic use case is to store data, fast VMs, fast iSCSI. Together with the VMs it shall be an all in one box
ESXi Hypervisor shall host:
- Freenas
- pfSense
- bunch of VMs
6x 10 TB spinning rust passed thru to Truenas -> can onboards controller be passed thru to truenas?
HDD shall be smb storage as Raid Z2
Asus hyper m.2 equipped with 4x 2tb NVMe SSD -> passed thru to truenas
mirrored 2x2tb shall be iscsi
mirrored 2x 2tb shall be fast NFS for VMs
Priority points (1 low - 10 max)
10 - Data integrity
8 - Power consumption
7- Networking speed
6 - Cost of procurement (budget for CPU, RAM, Motherboard is ~2k USD, the less the better)
5 - Cpu speed (usually it is close to idle)
Questions:
- Will 10G network be maxed out with the 3 pool configurations?
- onboard mini sas controller able to pass thru?
- Are more suitable CPU/ Motherboard configs arround?
- in case I go crazy with a mellanox 100GBE card and set iSCSI target to my desktop PC to boot directly from Truenas, what speed can I expect from a mirrored 2x2TB NVME?
open discussion highly appreciated!