adamjs83
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I have read through the forums and interwebs extensively so please be kind as I am still a total freenas noob. I am intending to use freenas to replace two Synology Diskstations using drives I already own along with some new drives. The current workload is as follows:
DS1: 4 250gb Crucial MX100 SSD's in raid5 serving a single ESXI host with roughly 15 very low workload VM's over block level NFS. The VM's are all single purpose windows or debian servers and I am the only user. The only higher workload VM my PLEX server and I am also thinking of adding Blueiris however that would record to a different storage array.
DS2: 3 4tb reds in raid5 divided between 2 volumes,
New Freenas Build:
1 x SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7
1 x [URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316']Intel Xeon E3-1231V3[/URL]
[URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316']1 x [URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148770']Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600[/URL][/URL]
[URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316'][URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148770']1 x [URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146083']NZXT Source 220 CA-SO220-01 Black Steel / Aluminum-like finish ATX Mid Tower Computer Case[/URL][/URL][/URL]
4 x Crucial MX100 SSD in Raidz1
6 x White Label WD Red 6TB in Raidz2
1 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive- SDCZ33-008G-B35
I plan to use the MX100 Raidz1 pool as my ESXI SAN for VM boot drives only. I know this has been discussed a lot on the forums and elsewhere but I can't find a definitive answer, iscsi or nfs? Also know raidz1 is a no no but there is no critical data on this pool as there will be regular veaam backups to other partitions and at this point I don't want to invest in additional drives.
The WD Red pool will be in raidz2 and will store movies for streaming with plex, my music collection, personal and family photos and videos and personal records. Everything except for the Plex collection will be backed up to the other DS2 and Azure. I will not be backing up the movie collection at this time because it is all replaceable and I don't want to invest in that much additional storage infrastructure. Additionally everything except for the plex movie collections will live in a virtual hard disk connected to my windows file server vm in ESXI although I could be convinced to change that strategy.
I appreciate any thoughts as I dive in to this.
DS1: 4 250gb Crucial MX100 SSD's in raid5 serving a single ESXI host with roughly 15 very low workload VM's over block level NFS. The VM's are all single purpose windows or debian servers and I am the only user. The only higher workload VM my PLEX server and I am also thinking of adding Blueiris however that would record to a different storage array.
DS2: 3 4tb reds in raid5 divided between 2 volumes,
V1: file level nfs storing a single 2tb HD for a file server
V2: Plex video repository available made available to my plex vm over file level nfs and my desktop pc and windows VMs using CIFS. I also have 2 macs performing time machine backups to this volume.
V2: Plex video repository available made available to my plex vm over file level nfs and my desktop pc and windows VMs using CIFS. I also have 2 macs performing time machine backups to this volume.
New Freenas Build:
1 x SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7
1 x [URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316']Intel Xeon E3-1231V3[/URL]
[URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316']1 x [URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148770']Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600[/URL][/URL]
[URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316'][URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148770']1 x [URL='http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146083']NZXT Source 220 CA-SO220-01 Black Steel / Aluminum-like finish ATX Mid Tower Computer Case[/URL][/URL][/URL]
4 x Crucial MX100 SSD in Raidz1
6 x White Label WD Red 6TB in Raidz2
1 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive- SDCZ33-008G-B35
I plan to use the MX100 Raidz1 pool as my ESXI SAN for VM boot drives only. I know this has been discussed a lot on the forums and elsewhere but I can't find a definitive answer, iscsi or nfs? Also know raidz1 is a no no but there is no critical data on this pool as there will be regular veaam backups to other partitions and at this point I don't want to invest in additional drives.
The WD Red pool will be in raidz2 and will store movies for streaming with plex, my music collection, personal and family photos and videos and personal records. Everything except for the Plex collection will be backed up to the other DS2 and Azure. I will not be backing up the movie collection at this time because it is all replaceable and I don't want to invest in that much additional storage infrastructure. Additionally everything except for the plex movie collections will live in a virtual hard disk connected to my windows file server vm in ESXI although I could be convinced to change that strategy.
I appreciate any thoughts as I dive in to this.