Storage, VM and MongoDB server

[guyomel]

Hi!

I would like to build a FreeNAS server able to

1. Store my files (a few Terabytes)
2. Smoothly run a Windows and Linux VMs, sometimes at the same time
3. And act as a MongoDB server (several Terabytes of data, hundred of millions of small documents)

For this purpose, I plan to buy these hardware components:

Mainboard: Supermicro X11SPi-TF
Processor: Intel Xeon Silver 4112
Memory: 64 GB EEC DDR4
SSD (OS only): 2x Samsung SSD 128 GB 850 PRO [RAID 1]
Storage: 2x Western Digital Red 8 TB to begin with, soon joined by 2x Western Digital Red 4 TB
LAN: onboard 10GbE

This will be my first FreeNAS build. What do you think?

Thank you.

 

[iRefugee]

This build seems like a high budget build. I think it would be suggested to start with more hard drives if you want to expand your zpool or increase the size of your vdev. I haven't built my zfs server yet but I have heard these suggestions before. Interesting build though.

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[guyomel]

Thank you for your answer.

I have updated my requirements in consequence.

SSD for L2ARC: SSD M.2 128 GB
SSD for SLOG: Samsung SSD 128 GB 850 PRO
Storage: 6x 4TB HDD