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This is for an assignment at a University in a LAB environment, so no production or great danger to data. Or at least nothing that can't be restored from backup.
We currently have access to one FreeNAS based NAS for storage with four 500GB drives and 8GB RAM. Not exactly the fastest thing around, especially with 18MB read speed. (no idea why though, but I'd rather not mess to much with it)
So I'd like something better as storage for our group, and to spread the load.
We have a four HP servers with 24GB RAM and one Xenon 1.8GHz quad core (without HT). Four 1Gb ports.
Each equipped with two 146GB 15k SAS drives.
I have used one server as storage with FreeNAS before equipped with all 8 drives making the other nodes diskless, but this time we can't spare one host just as NAS.
We need it as a ESXi 5.5u2 host in the cluster.
Any advise how to best use the resources?
My plan was to run FreeNAS as a VM with the controller in pass though. 12GB might be enough leaving us with 12GB for other VMs.
I'm open to other OSes or configurations.
We currently have access to one FreeNAS based NAS for storage with four 500GB drives and 8GB RAM. Not exactly the fastest thing around, especially with 18MB read speed. (no idea why though, but I'd rather not mess to much with it)
So I'd like something better as storage for our group, and to spread the load.
We have a four HP servers with 24GB RAM and one Xenon 1.8GHz quad core (without HT). Four 1Gb ports.
Each equipped with two 146GB 15k SAS drives.
I have used one server as storage with FreeNAS before equipped with all 8 drives making the other nodes diskless, but this time we can't spare one host just as NAS.
We need it as a ESXi 5.5u2 host in the cluster.
Any advise how to best use the resources?
My plan was to run FreeNAS as a VM with the controller in pass though. 12GB might be enough leaving us with 12GB for other VMs.
I'm open to other OSes or configurations.