X9SRH-7TF or X10SRH-CF

[ALFA]

Hi guys, good morning, hope everything is going well over here,i have a doubt or well i am in a doubt and if anyone would help me to resolve it I would appreciate much.

For a ESXi server which of these cards would you select and why?, I have this idea, i looking forward to make a lab machine, and in a future a backup machine too, so i can have in the same machine a VM for Windows/Linux/Solaris, etc. for example and a FressNas in other (to store some Snapshot), It just for testing purposes.

I looking more for the X9SRH-7TF, because it has a Dual port 10GBase-T, that could be useful in the future, and a 8x SAS2 where it supported by the backplane that I have, where the X10SRH-CF has 8x SAS3 supported by the backplane too but looks like its not recommended by FreeNas because some issues, right? (correct me if I am wrong), the other aspect its that the X10SRH can support the newer CPU generation while the X9SRH can´t, the same go to the memory slots (DDR3 vs DDR4)

So guys again, which of these cards would you select and why?, based on what I comment here. Thanks for you time and read me guys.

TL;DR between a supermicro X9SRH-7TF and a X10SRH-CF which one would you select for a ESXi server, that can run some FreeNas instance to store some Snapshot, and do some experiments in other VM instances.

Edit. add the link for each mobo

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRH-7TF.cfm

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRH-CF.cfm

 

[marbus90]

X10SRL-F plus the AOC-2308L-L8E HBA for FreeNAS. If you want another HW-RAID-controller for ESXi boot/VMs I'll have to dig around more, but I believe that was called AOC-2308L-L8i then.

As for 10Gbe, you may want to look into Dual-CPU boards. Those with a basic E5-2620 v3 are often less expensive than singlesocket boards with extra 10Gbe adapters, especially if you prefer 10Gbase-T.

 

[ALFA]

Many thanks marbus90, that was very helpful indeed, look I found this one based on your suggestion, what do you think? (and its not a crazy price on ebay)

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRL-iT.cfm

antoher question, any good 16-ports HBA card suggestion? i have a chassis with 16 bays, so I would need at least 2 X 8-port HBA (AOC-2308L-L8E, that looks very nice) , or its better (for the price perspective and maybe convenience in case one of this card failed) have 2 x 8-port HBA?

plus its a good idea to buy SATADOM from supermicro? any one have any experience with those.

thanks again and kind regards.

 

[marbus90]

One of the more cost-effective boards for datacenters, but will do the needful :)

the 64GB Supermicro SATADOMs are very recommendable. You'll get around 51GiB usable with ESXi 5.5, 6 reserves 16GiB -> ~43GiB usable. More than enough for FreeNAS boot. ESXi doesn't support any kind of RAID, but I'd still get two to mirror FreeNAS boot (creating 1 VMDK on each of the SATADOM datastores).

The 16port Controllers use more energy and are less common, so I'd rather use 2x 8port HBAs.

 

[ALFA]

you are the man marbus90, many thank for sharing your knowledge :)

kind regards.