I'm looking for a bit of guidance, thoughts, opinions, etc.
I have a x11spm-tpf machine with 6230n and 192gb (I'm in the market for 4x 32gb 2666 lrdimm + 2x 512gb pmem 100 dimm and my money/paypal is good).
I'm looking to build a tn-core vm that I'll use to backup (keep second local copy of data) our bare-metal tn-core and tn-scale machines.
What's the best way to approach this? I'm starting to think it would be much easier to buy a 9300 hba card, pass everything through to the VM and call it done. Should I give the VM 2x boot drives and have TN mirror virtual drives? Or just give tn one boot drive knowing that the datastore is on another tn machine with redundancy?
I've thought about possibly putting tn-scale on this machine and running esxi host as a vm inside of scale. But it was rumored that xi systems charges to use persistent memory. Can anyone confirm that? I am very actively seeking out 1tb optane pmem dimms for this server. It is my understanding from SM tech support that the x11spm-tpf mobo only operates in memory mode --so does that matter to the whole paid/unpaid xi systems thing? Wouldn't tn scale/core see "memory mode optane" as just memory dimms? Or are there flags and would I run into issues?
Has anyone ever lifted out a hba card and physically moved the hba card plus the drives to a different esxi host? Does it boot and just work or is it a disaster? I'm a little worried about running a vm on an esxi host that can't be moved/migrated.
Hope all that made sense. Thanks in advance for any feedback/thoughts.
I have a x11spm-tpf machine with 6230n and 192gb (I'm in the market for 4x 32gb 2666 lrdimm + 2x 512gb pmem 100 dimm and my money/paypal is good).
I'm looking to build a tn-core vm that I'll use to backup (keep second local copy of data) our bare-metal tn-core and tn-scale machines.
What's the best way to approach this? I'm starting to think it would be much easier to buy a 9300 hba card, pass everything through to the VM and call it done. Should I give the VM 2x boot drives and have TN mirror virtual drives? Or just give tn one boot drive knowing that the datastore is on another tn machine with redundancy?
I've thought about possibly putting tn-scale on this machine and running esxi host as a vm inside of scale. But it was rumored that xi systems charges to use persistent memory. Can anyone confirm that? I am very actively seeking out 1tb optane pmem dimms for this server. It is my understanding from SM tech support that the x11spm-tpf mobo only operates in memory mode --so does that matter to the whole paid/unpaid xi systems thing? Wouldn't tn scale/core see "memory mode optane" as just memory dimms? Or are there flags and would I run into issues?
Has anyone ever lifted out a hba card and physically moved the hba card plus the drives to a different esxi host? Does it boot and just work or is it a disaster? I'm a little worried about running a vm on an esxi host that can't be moved/migrated.
Hope all that made sense. Thanks in advance for any feedback/thoughts.