Slidspitfire
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- Mar 29, 2019
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Hello there,
This is my first topic after the self introduction one.
I wish I can have some advice from you communauts on the build I am planning.
I currently have a VM host computer (still testing several hypervisors, should move to ESXi in the next days) that through an UnRAID VM provides network storage and some services (DNS PiHole, UNMS, Grafana+InfluxDB+Telegraf, web server...) to my house.
This machine is rather powerful and houses several high end GPUs and CPUs to be able to allocate all the VMs needed by me and my family.
In order to decouple the services from the VDI appliance I am planning on moving from a single super powerful (and power hungry) host to a VDI host booted on demand and an always-on server for network storage and the services listed above.
The two systems will be located in two symmetric PC cases welded side by side into a single case. The FreeNAS server has a mATX motherboard and allows to use the empty PCIe slots of its case for GPUs of the VDI host through risers (de facto allowing for single slot use of dual slot GPUs).
The two systems will be connected to the home network (for the moment) via their own 1GbE NICs, while a P2P 10GbE connection will be put in place in order to allow for the complete removal of storage devices from the VDI host side.
In fact the FreeNAS server will act as an NFS/iSCSI target datastore for ESXi and all the virtual machines disks will be stored there.
It will house a 10GbE Mellanox Connect-X 3 NIC, an Intel Optane 32GB cache drive on NVME, 3 WD Gold 1TB, 2 WD Velociraptors 600GB and 2/3 Samsung SATA SSDs.
Eventually I'll add a stand alone 960 EVO NVME SSD for shared video games library use.
The section's question "Will it FreeNAS?" is basically related to the CPU choice.
I have found a deal (183€) for an awesome BMC+IPMI motherboard, the Asus C246M WS PRO and the CPU compatibility list is the following: https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/WS-C246-PRO/HelpDesk_CPU/
Recap:
What would be the best CPU choice for my project? I think that the i3-8100 is a great value with the ECC support and 4 "i" cores, but maybe a Pentium or a Celeron would be just enough.
Can you help me select the best option?
Thank you in advance,
Slid
This is my first topic after the self introduction one.
I wish I can have some advice from you communauts on the build I am planning.
I currently have a VM host computer (still testing several hypervisors, should move to ESXi in the next days) that through an UnRAID VM provides network storage and some services (DNS PiHole, UNMS, Grafana+InfluxDB+Telegraf, web server...) to my house.
This machine is rather powerful and houses several high end GPUs and CPUs to be able to allocate all the VMs needed by me and my family.
In order to decouple the services from the VDI appliance I am planning on moving from a single super powerful (and power hungry) host to a VDI host booted on demand and an always-on server for network storage and the services listed above.
The two systems will be located in two symmetric PC cases welded side by side into a single case. The FreeNAS server has a mATX motherboard and allows to use the empty PCIe slots of its case for GPUs of the VDI host through risers (de facto allowing for single slot use of dual slot GPUs).
The two systems will be connected to the home network (for the moment) via their own 1GbE NICs, while a P2P 10GbE connection will be put in place in order to allow for the complete removal of storage devices from the VDI host side.
In fact the FreeNAS server will act as an NFS/iSCSI target datastore for ESXi and all the virtual machines disks will be stored there.
It will house a 10GbE Mellanox Connect-X 3 NIC, an Intel Optane 32GB cache drive on NVME, 3 WD Gold 1TB, 2 WD Velociraptors 600GB and 2/3 Samsung SATA SSDs.
Eventually I'll add a stand alone 960 EVO NVME SSD for shared video games library use.
The section's question "Will it FreeNAS?" is basically related to the CPU choice.
I have found a deal (183€) for an awesome BMC+IPMI motherboard, the Asus C246M WS PRO and the CPU compatibility list is the following: https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/WS-C246-PRO/HelpDesk_CPU/
Recap:
- I am planning on building a FreeNAS host
- It will provide basic NAS features (backup server, shared network storage)
- It will run several services in the form of Docker containers
- It will act as a NFS/iSCSI target for ESXi VM disks
- It will be connected via dual 1GbE to home LAN and through 10 GbE to the ESXi host
- It will handle some 8-10 SATA drives, plus NVME cache and NVME shared software drive
What would be the best CPU choice for my project? I think that the i3-8100 is a great value with the ECC support and 4 "i" cores, but maybe a Pentium or a Celeron would be just enough.
Can you help me select the best option?
Thank you in advance,
Slid