SubnetMask
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I have acquired a Dell FX2s chassis with FN410S IO modules, with the main purpose being to populate it with two servers for my VMWare hosts and one for my backup server. That leaves one free slot.
Currently, I have a R620 that is my FreeNAS controller, connected via two LSI HBAs to two Supermicro JBOD enclosures that house my disk pools, and in the interests of consolidation, am considering a FC630 to replace the R620.
The FX2s chassis has eight PCIe 3.0 slots that map to the compute modules, which could house the HBAs, and the networking is onboard the server in the form of either a dual port or quad port NDC..
I would think in theory that there would be no performance hit in the bridge between the blade and the PCIe slots, and that the performance would be equal to that of say a R630 or R730 with the same basic specs (CPU, memory).
That being said, does anyone have any experience running FreeNAS on a Dell FC server with one or more SAS HBAs in a FX2s chassis connecting to external disk arrays?
Currently, I have a R620 that is my FreeNAS controller, connected via two LSI HBAs to two Supermicro JBOD enclosures that house my disk pools, and in the interests of consolidation, am considering a FC630 to replace the R620.
The FX2s chassis has eight PCIe 3.0 slots that map to the compute modules, which could house the HBAs, and the networking is onboard the server in the form of either a dual port or quad port NDC..
I would think in theory that there would be no performance hit in the bridge between the blade and the PCIe slots, and that the performance would be equal to that of say a R630 or R730 with the same basic specs (CPU, memory).
That being said, does anyone have any experience running FreeNAS on a Dell FC server with one or more SAS HBAs in a FX2s chassis connecting to external disk arrays?