Jaknell1011
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I have a Dell Poweredge c6100 XS23-TY3 system. It is a 2u 4node system. I am using 3 of the 4 nodes as ESXi hosts and will be using node 4 as my FreeNAS box. I will be using this FreeNAS box as the datastore location for the 3 ESXi hosts. Each nodes specs are the same, with the exception of the storage on the FreeNAS node. The specs for each node are as follows:
(2) Intel Xeon L5520 2.27ghz Quad Core CPUs
32GB of RAM
(1) 16GB Sandisk USB stick for hypervisor and FreeNAS installation
(12) 1TB HDDs in RAIDz2 configuration (2x6HDD) (FreeNAS box only)
(1) IBM Serveraid M1015 SAS/SATA Controller (FreeNAS box only)
I am looking for opinions on how this system should perform acting as a NFS datastore for 3 ESXi hosts. I plan on using NFS over ISCSI as I am considering a backup solution and find it will be easier to backup through NFS vs backing up one large file extent. Each host will only be running a couple of server VMs (3 max to start).
Any configuration suggestions would be great. I am currently considering adding an SLOG device and am looking into one 32GB Intel X-25 SSDSA2SH032G1GN. Will adding this help boost performance of the ESXi setup.
Basically...
1.) How well wold you expect this to perform as an ESXi datastore?
2.) Should I add anything (SLOG, ZIL, etc.) and will I see a performance gain?
(2) Intel Xeon L5520 2.27ghz Quad Core CPUs
32GB of RAM
(1) 16GB Sandisk USB stick for hypervisor and FreeNAS installation
(12) 1TB HDDs in RAIDz2 configuration (2x6HDD) (FreeNAS box only)
(1) IBM Serveraid M1015 SAS/SATA Controller (FreeNAS box only)
I am looking for opinions on how this system should perform acting as a NFS datastore for 3 ESXi hosts. I plan on using NFS over ISCSI as I am considering a backup solution and find it will be easier to backup through NFS vs backing up one large file extent. Each host will only be running a couple of server VMs (3 max to start).
Any configuration suggestions would be great. I am currently considering adding an SLOG device and am looking into one 32GB Intel X-25 SSDSA2SH032G1GN. Will adding this help boost performance of the ESXi setup.
Basically...
1.) How well wold you expect this to perform as an ESXi datastore?
2.) Should I add anything (SLOG, ZIL, etc.) and will I see a performance gain?