BUILD Will this Hardware be suitable?

[efeu]

I'm planing to build a (heavy load) test environment and I want to reuse some of our already existing hardware (ie esxi hosts with fibre HA). The freeNAS should become the storage of this esxi cluster (three nodes).

My planed hardware:
AMD Epyc 7261
Supermicro H11SSL-NC (integrated Broadcom SAS3008 8x SAS 12Gb/s Controller)
8x 16GB LRDIMM DDR4
4x Samsung SSD PM1643 1.92TB, SAS 12Gb/s
Some USB Stick for freeNAS OS

As we do have some Brocade 300 Switches for our esxi hosts (with LPe12000 8Gb Fibre Channel Host Adapters) I want to use 2x QLogic QLE2562-CK Adapters for the freeNAS (yes I know we should upgrade to 40 or 100Gb/s with this setup, but for now I have to use it).

In this thread it is mentioned that the QLogic Adapter will not work with a LSI Adapters (which should be just a rebrand of the integrated SAS3008 one) in the same system. Can anyone confirm this, any suggestion on using other 12Gb/s IT-Mode-SAS Adapter or another Brocade 300 supported SFP+ Adapter? Or is the info in this thread just outdated? Would the same happen to a dedicated Broadcom SAS 9305-16i ?

Update:

I reconsidered my hardware choice and I think we'll get a TYAN TN70AB8026 (B8026T70AV8E16HR) with 16x U.2 NVMe + 8x SATA

Now I dont know which SSDs to take, I'm thinking about:
8x 3.2TB Intel® SSD DC P4610 in Striped RAIDZ
8x 4.0TB Intel® SSD DC P4510 in Striped RAIDZ
8x 3.84TB Micron 9200 PRO in Striped RAIDZ

Use case will be the Cluster Storage of ~140 VMs

Any suggestions?

 

[Chris Moore]

Successful Build with AMD Epyc and Supermicro H11SSL-i
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...cro-h11ssl-i-do-freenas-11.63854/#post-490815

 

[Chris Moore]

I don't think the success of FreeNAS would be impacted by the change from the H11SSL-i to the H11SSL-NC board, so you should be fine. Just change the SAS controller to the IT mode firmware. That should be fairly easy.

 

[efeu]

Well the main question still is, will the QLogic FB Card and the SAS-Controller(s) will block each other?

 

[Chris Moore]

Well the main question still is, will the QLogic FB Card and the SAS-Controller(s) will block each other?

Sorry, I don't have any experience with QLogic FB.
I have used Chelsio and Mellanox 10Gb SFP+ fiber adapters on FreeNAS servers with no difficulty.
Hopefully there is someone else that can chime in on that.

 

[efeu]

I reconsidered my hardware choice and I think we'll get a TYAN TN70AB8026 (B8026T70AV8E16HR) with 16x U.2 NVMe + 8x SATA

Now I dont know which SSDs to take, I'm thinking about:
8x 3.2TB Intel® SSD DC P4610 in Striped RAIDZ
8x 4.0TB Intel® SSD DC P4510 in Striped RAIDZ
8x 3.84TB Micron 9200 PRO in Striped RAIDZ

Use case will be the Cluster Storage of ~140 VMs

Any suggestions?