Hello people,
I own a Dell T440 server with the below hardware:
- PowerEdge T440 Server - Chassis with up to 8, 3.5" Hot Plug Hard Drives, Tower Configuration, PERC/HBA11
- PowerEdge T440 MLK Motherboard, V2
- Intel® Xeon® Silver 4214R 2.4G, 12C/24T
- 64GB DDR4-2400 - Performance Optimized - 3200MT/s RDIMMs
- BOSS-S1 controller card for M.2 Sticks
- PERC H750 Adapter, Full Height
For the moment, on this server I run Proxmox with few VMs/containers (Plex, some media VMs, Grafana, ...). In term of storage, it is pretty basic, using EXT4 and NFS/SMB shares + rclone auto backup.
I would be very interested to start running Truenas on my server. At first, I was tempted to virtualise it with Proxmox but then I realised that I do not use any fancy features from Proxmox that is not available in Truenas Scale. So why not get rid of Proxmox completely?! and run Truenas Scale instead with some VMs/containers. I could easily migrate some services out of this server if I need to split some stuff later on (eg. NUC).
Long story short, my main issues (except if I missed anything else) are those raid controllers. I'm aware that ZFS needs direct access to disks. For the moment, the first one (BOSS-S1) controls M.2 Sticks where Proxmox is running. The second (PERC H750) controls 2 SSD (raid 1) for VMs and 4 HDD (raid 5) for storage.
How can I get around this without spending $$$? Are there any configuration I could leverage or HBA card that would be compatible with my hardware?
I'd appreciate any insights on how to move forward. I'm a complete noob with ZFS - I just read about it.
Thank you in advance for your expertise!
I own a Dell T440 server with the below hardware:
- PowerEdge T440 Server - Chassis with up to 8, 3.5" Hot Plug Hard Drives, Tower Configuration, PERC/HBA11
- PowerEdge T440 MLK Motherboard, V2
- Intel® Xeon® Silver 4214R 2.4G, 12C/24T
- 64GB DDR4-2400 - Performance Optimized - 3200MT/s RDIMMs
- BOSS-S1 controller card for M.2 Sticks
- PERC H750 Adapter, Full Height
For the moment, on this server I run Proxmox with few VMs/containers (Plex, some media VMs, Grafana, ...). In term of storage, it is pretty basic, using EXT4 and NFS/SMB shares + rclone auto backup.
I would be very interested to start running Truenas on my server. At first, I was tempted to virtualise it with Proxmox but then I realised that I do not use any fancy features from Proxmox that is not available in Truenas Scale. So why not get rid of Proxmox completely?! and run Truenas Scale instead with some VMs/containers. I could easily migrate some services out of this server if I need to split some stuff later on (eg. NUC).
Long story short, my main issues (except if I missed anything else) are those raid controllers. I'm aware that ZFS needs direct access to disks. For the moment, the first one (BOSS-S1) controls M.2 Sticks where Proxmox is running. The second (PERC H750) controls 2 SSD (raid 1) for VMs and 4 HDD (raid 5) for storage.
How can I get around this without spending $$$? Are there any configuration I could leverage or HBA card that would be compatible with my hardware?
I'd appreciate any insights on how to move forward. I'm a complete noob with ZFS - I just read about it.
Thank you in advance for your expertise!