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 Or is the info in this thread just outdated?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?
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
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?
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