I would like to have shared storage for our ESXI's.
Our current hardware:
ESXI1: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 144GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 3x Intel 910 800GB PCI-E SSD as local storage.
ESXI2: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 72GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 2x Intel 910 800GB + Samsung 970 Evo 1TB PCI-E SSDs as local storage.
ESXI3: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 72GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 10x Western Digital Red 1TB HDDs. Currently as backup server.
ESXI4: HP Proliant DL380p Gen8, 64GB RAM, 1x Intel Xeon E5-2620 @ 2,00GHz, 1x Samsung 970 Pro, 8x HP 300GB SAS drives. (8x SFF bay version)
Does it sound good or bad idea to convert that DL380p Gen8 to Freenas shared storage?
I was thinking of buying these parts (Ebay if possible):
- Extra 8x SFF HDD drive cage kit 662883-B21
- LSI 9305-16i HBA
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643 V2 (3,5GHz, 6 core)
- 256GB RAM (maybe 16GB or 32GB sticks 1866MHz, LRDIMM or RDIMM)
- Intel Optane 905P 380GB SLOG, possibly another one for L2ARC if you recommend it.
- 12-16x SATA SSD's. Some kind of PLP would be nice but lets see.
- 3x Chelsio T580-LP-CR 40Gb or Chelsio 10Gb (from storage to 2 esxi's and vmotion between esxi's).
We need about 5TB usable disk space and currently we have 15 VM's.
Our budget is quite small.
What do you guys think about this?
Our current hardware:
ESXI1: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 144GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 3x Intel 910 800GB PCI-E SSD as local storage.
ESXI2: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 72GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 2x Intel 910 800GB + Samsung 970 Evo 1TB PCI-E SSDs as local storage.
ESXI3: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 72GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 10x Western Digital Red 1TB HDDs. Currently as backup server.
ESXI4: HP Proliant DL380p Gen8, 64GB RAM, 1x Intel Xeon E5-2620 @ 2,00GHz, 1x Samsung 970 Pro, 8x HP 300GB SAS drives. (8x SFF bay version)
Does it sound good or bad idea to convert that DL380p Gen8 to Freenas shared storage?
I was thinking of buying these parts (Ebay if possible):
- Extra 8x SFF HDD drive cage kit 662883-B21
- LSI 9305-16i HBA
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643 V2 (3,5GHz, 6 core)
- 256GB RAM (maybe 16GB or 32GB sticks 1866MHz, LRDIMM or RDIMM)
- Intel Optane 905P 380GB SLOG, possibly another one for L2ARC if you recommend it.
- 12-16x SATA SSD's. Some kind of PLP would be nice but lets see.
- 3x Chelsio T580-LP-CR 40Gb or Chelsio 10Gb (from storage to 2 esxi's and vmotion between esxi's).
We need about 5TB usable disk space and currently we have 15 VM's.
Our budget is quite small.
What do you guys think about this?