Sizing TrueNAS CPU

[jgreco]

the PERC H730P support pass-through.

That's a no-go. See:

What's all the noise about HBAs, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with, a server. RAID controllers typically aggregate several disks into a Virtual Disk abstraction of some sort...

www.truenas.com

 

[Ericloewe]

is E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz Eight-Core classify as reasonably recent Xeon?

Yes, but the FX2 stuff is a bit more unusual than you'd see around here. There may be dragons.

I was thinking of dedicating the storage block to the E5-2640 v3 and do a Non-RAID (pass-through) as the PERC H730P support pass-through.

The H730P won't work well, but you can probably replace it with an HBA330.

 

[Fred974]

Yes, but the FX2 stuff is a bit more unusual than you'd see around here. There may be dragons.

The H730P won't work well, but you can probably replace it with an HBA330.

I know the FX2 is unusual but I was thinking that I can have 2 compute nodes for the hypervisor, I sled for storage and another computer node for TrueNAS. 1x 2U will everything I need in 1 box. Do you think its a bad idea?

 

[Ericloewe]

Do you think its a bad idea?

Not a bad idea per se, the pool of knowledge is just more limited and parts availability more questionable. You might want to run the specifics past a group that's familiar with the product line (maybe at STH, for instance).

 

[Fred974]

You might want to run the specifics past a group that's familiar with the product line (maybe at STH, for instance).

Good Idea :)