Hello,
After some reading and i want to convert 1 of my servers to a TrueNAS Core appliance for my homelab.
Sorry for the long thread on the forum..
I am using a couple of DL380p G8 25x 2.5" and i want to convert 1 to use TrueNAS in a better way that i was using in the past.
They have E5-2630L V2 for lower power TDP, but if going for a E5-2690 V2 improve the performance of the server, i can replace the cpu with no problems, because i already own them, and i have 12x16GB=192GB of DDR3 RAM
The TrueNAS will be used for iSCSI LUNs for my ESXi Cluster.
The HBA is an HPE H240 (i have read some people in the internet saying that this is not an ideal HBA but it will work. I have tested it, and it works with no problems, but probably i am not using it in the right way, or in the full power)
I have 25 900gb 10k disks SAS from HP and i would like to use them for my ESXi cluster storage.
In the past i have done a setup with this configuration without deduplication and compression and the performance on ESXi was acceptable, but i had the problem after some seconds the writes went down, and sometimes they stop and came back writing again after a while.
Which i think is normal, since i didn't had ZIL, or something like that, just pure storage, with SYNC in the default option, didn't notice almost nothing in the performance changing to disable the SYNC.
Now i was looking for a better option to build the server with the proper configuration.
I don't need high speed, i will stay in gigabit storage with MPIO which is almost 250mb/s, but i will need it to handle my VM's.
Domain controllers, VDI, Firewall, MS SQL, MS Exchange etc.. this is to be used on home for 3 persons max. and they will not be to much IO intensive since it's a homelab.
I am looking for your help in order to build the server to hold the 250mb/s speed without being dropped very low and going back again to the almost 250mb/s.
I have the disks being used now in raid10 with the HBA in raid mode and the performance is ok, and i have any problems, but it's local storage and not shared storage (here is the problem for the ESXi cluster)
From my reading having ZIL and SLOG will be great and i can turn on the SYNC, i was looking for 2 Intel Optane 900p PCI 480gb or HP/HPE Fusion IO PCI, are they OK to invest the money for this build?
Since this is for a low speed storage with ZIL and SLOG, what is the best option for space and performance on the VDEV configuration side?
I was thinking leaving the mirrors side to achieve the "raid10" on ZFS and going to RaidZ1 or Z2 with multiple VDEVS and use less than 23 disks, since i will try to use 2 2.5" slots for the OS install and see if the H240 can handle it to boot into the OS, so i can stop using USB adapter with 2 SSD's on the back of the server and have 2 hot spares in the VDEV.
I would like to ear from you what i can do with my hardware and what is the best option to do with it, and if possible stay on all HP/HPE hardware side to maintain a consistent hardware platform for firmware upgrade and brand.
After some reading and i want to convert 1 of my servers to a TrueNAS Core appliance for my homelab.
Sorry for the long thread on the forum..
I am using a couple of DL380p G8 25x 2.5" and i want to convert 1 to use TrueNAS in a better way that i was using in the past.
They have E5-2630L V2 for lower power TDP, but if going for a E5-2690 V2 improve the performance of the server, i can replace the cpu with no problems, because i already own them, and i have 12x16GB=192GB of DDR3 RAM
The TrueNAS will be used for iSCSI LUNs for my ESXi Cluster.
The HBA is an HPE H240 (i have read some people in the internet saying that this is not an ideal HBA but it will work. I have tested it, and it works with no problems, but probably i am not using it in the right way, or in the full power)
I have 25 900gb 10k disks SAS from HP and i would like to use them for my ESXi cluster storage.
In the past i have done a setup with this configuration without deduplication and compression and the performance on ESXi was acceptable, but i had the problem after some seconds the writes went down, and sometimes they stop and came back writing again after a while.
Which i think is normal, since i didn't had ZIL, or something like that, just pure storage, with SYNC in the default option, didn't notice almost nothing in the performance changing to disable the SYNC.
Now i was looking for a better option to build the server with the proper configuration.
I don't need high speed, i will stay in gigabit storage with MPIO which is almost 250mb/s, but i will need it to handle my VM's.
Domain controllers, VDI, Firewall, MS SQL, MS Exchange etc.. this is to be used on home for 3 persons max. and they will not be to much IO intensive since it's a homelab.
I am looking for your help in order to build the server to hold the 250mb/s speed without being dropped very low and going back again to the almost 250mb/s.
I have the disks being used now in raid10 with the HBA in raid mode and the performance is ok, and i have any problems, but it's local storage and not shared storage (here is the problem for the ESXi cluster)
From my reading having ZIL and SLOG will be great and i can turn on the SYNC, i was looking for 2 Intel Optane 900p PCI 480gb or HP/HPE Fusion IO PCI, are they OK to invest the money for this build?
Since this is for a low speed storage with ZIL and SLOG, what is the best option for space and performance on the VDEV configuration side?
I was thinking leaving the mirrors side to achieve the "raid10" on ZFS and going to RaidZ1 or Z2 with multiple VDEVS and use less than 23 disks, since i will try to use 2 2.5" slots for the OS install and see if the H240 can handle it to boot into the OS, so i can stop using USB adapter with 2 SSD's on the back of the server and have 2 hot spares in the VDEV.
I would like to ear from you what i can do with my hardware and what is the best option to do with it, and if possible stay on all HP/HPE hardware side to maintain a consistent hardware platform for firmware upgrade and brand.
