miercoles131
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Good Day wonderful iX Community,
I been a lurker for a while and I figured I try my shot at this new build I planning, it’s based on a lot of the hardware recommendations I seen posted here in the forum along with some tweaks of my own based on my requirements.
I would like to buy the following used server:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro...-24-x-HDD-Storage-Server-W-Rails/173688157339
System: Supermicro SuperChassis 846E1-R1200B Dual 6 Core Xeon 24 x HDD Storage Server
Processor: Dual Intel Xeon E502620 15M 2Ghz Six Core Processor
Memory: 64GB RAM (8x 8GB PC3-12800R)
RAID Controller : LSI 9266-8i Array *(To be replaced with one or more HP HBA https://www.ebay.com/itm/660088-001...8I-PCI-E-HBA-HOST-BUS-ADAPTER-US/132757577271)
Network: Intel I350T4BLK (4 Port Gigabit Network Adapter) AND some sort of dual port 10GB SPF+
System Board: X9DRi-F
Power Supply: Dual PWS-1K21P-1R 1200W 80 Gold Plus
Hard Drive Configuration: Tentative, I am thinking of two configurations:
***This assumes my understanding of VDEVs via RAIDZ1 and mirrors is correct***
This server will be utilized to store 20TBs of active content files ranging from small to large files (20Gigs in size) for 6-10 machines and serve up iSCSI storage to three ESX servers via dual 10GB SFP+ links to host 30~35 VMs for standard operation AD, Management systems, Firewall, CA, IDS, few databases etc.…
Current concern is making sure VM performance is not a bottleneck as new systems are often stood up each month, imaged or deployed and can take up some bandwidth with unclear IOPS requirements.
NOTE: Content will be backed up to a Synology NAS populated with 8x 8TB Drives via 10Gig SFP+
I would appreciate some feedback on the system and drive configurations.
I been a lurker for a while and I figured I try my shot at this new build I planning, it’s based on a lot of the hardware recommendations I seen posted here in the forum along with some tweaks of my own based on my requirements.
I would like to buy the following used server:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro...-24-x-HDD-Storage-Server-W-Rails/173688157339
System: Supermicro SuperChassis 846E1-R1200B Dual 6 Core Xeon 24 x HDD Storage Server
Processor: Dual Intel Xeon E502620 15M 2Ghz Six Core Processor
Memory: 64GB RAM (8x 8GB PC3-12800R)
RAID Controller : LSI 9266-8i Array *(To be replaced with one or more HP HBA https://www.ebay.com/itm/660088-001...8I-PCI-E-HBA-HOST-BUS-ADAPTER-US/132757577271)
Network: Intel I350T4BLK (4 Port Gigabit Network Adapter) AND some sort of dual port 10GB SPF+
System Board: X9DRi-F
Power Supply: Dual PWS-1K21P-1R 1200W 80 Gold Plus
Hard Drive Configuration: Tentative, I am thinking of two configurations:
- Data pool with 3 VDEVs RAIDZ1 on 9x 6TB Drives total of under 36TB of usable space, VM pool with 3VDEVs Mirrors on 6x 2TB SSDs total of under 6TBs of usable space. This leaves me with 9 extra drive bays to add another VDEV to the data pool for future expansion and 2 or 3 VDEV Mirrors assuming I may or may not use hot-spare drives.
- Pool with 5 VDEV Mirrors on 10x 6TB Drives total of under 30TBs of usable space, a ZIL and maybe SLOG SSD or NVMe drive(s). This configuration leaves me with 13~14 empty drive bays that I can utilize to slowly expand with additional VDEV mirrors.
***This assumes my understanding of VDEVs via RAIDZ1 and mirrors is correct***
This server will be utilized to store 20TBs of active content files ranging from small to large files (20Gigs in size) for 6-10 machines and serve up iSCSI storage to three ESX servers via dual 10GB SFP+ links to host 30~35 VMs for standard operation AD, Management systems, Firewall, CA, IDS, few databases etc.…
Current concern is making sure VM performance is not a bottleneck as new systems are often stood up each month, imaged or deployed and can take up some bandwidth with unclear IOPS requirements.
NOTE: Content will be backed up to a Synology NAS populated with 8x 8TB Drives via 10Gig SFP+
I would appreciate some feedback on the system and drive configurations.