Redemption
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I built a server with the following specs;
Supermicro X11SPI-TF
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210 CPU @ 2.20GHz
190 Gigs DDR4 Registered Memory
MegaRAID SAS Raid controller for ESXI
9211-8i 6Gbps HBA LSI
6 x 1TB SSD drives
4 x 14TB Seagate Exos
I installed EXSI, used the MegaRAID controller, and created a Raid-10 Array out of 4 SSD drives. I installed a few VMs, including Truenas. I attached the remaining drives directly to the motherboard. From the memory, I dedicated 100 Gig of RAM for TrueNas.
I did a Passthrough and passed the Lewisburg Sata AHCI controller to TrueNas VM. The plan is to create a Mirror with the two SSD drives strictly to Install TrueNas apps. Will that work, or should I use the 9211 instead?
I am also debating whether I should do another mirror for the 14TB drives or use a RaidZ2. Either way, I lose half the drives, but I think I get a little performance boost with the mirror on reads.
The use case will be some VMS, including a Domain controller. I expect to run the typical apps, plex, sonarr, radarr etc. I will be doing video Editing; there will be transfers of large data files here and there. The server will be connected to a 10-gig switch.
Thank for the help in advance!
Supermicro X11SPI-TF
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210 CPU @ 2.20GHz
190 Gigs DDR4 Registered Memory
MegaRAID SAS Raid controller for ESXI
9211-8i 6Gbps HBA LSI
6 x 1TB SSD drives
4 x 14TB Seagate Exos
I installed EXSI, used the MegaRAID controller, and created a Raid-10 Array out of 4 SSD drives. I installed a few VMs, including Truenas. I attached the remaining drives directly to the motherboard. From the memory, I dedicated 100 Gig of RAM for TrueNas.
I did a Passthrough and passed the Lewisburg Sata AHCI controller to TrueNas VM. The plan is to create a Mirror with the two SSD drives strictly to Install TrueNas apps. Will that work, or should I use the 9211 instead?
I am also debating whether I should do another mirror for the 14TB drives or use a RaidZ2. Either way, I lose half the drives, but I think I get a little performance boost with the mirror on reads.
The use case will be some VMS, including a Domain controller. I expect to run the typical apps, plex, sonarr, radarr etc. I will be doing video Editing; there will be transfers of large data files here and there. The server will be connected to a 10-gig switch.
Thank for the help in advance!