ondjultomte
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So I have jumped the ship and ordered most parts for my new AiO server.
I need some input on how to configure the server for best performance.
Hardware:
32GB ECC
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Xeon 1220v3 (not yet ordered)
I will started with a mix of drives and replace them in the coming months
1x some thumb drive to boot ESXi from
1x Intel X25-M G2 80GB for VMs.
Storage drives will run raidz2:
3x HGST 4TB NAS
1 2TB wd green
1 2TB Samsung
1 3TB wd , something, cant remember now.
The last 3 drives will obviously be replaced with 3 HGST 4 TB NAS drives later on.
ESXi
VMs:
FreeNAS
Windows
Ubuntu
pfsense
My movie and music collection will take up the most part and redundancy isn't really critical.
But my collection of dSLR raw files will also be on here, but its currently only about 1.5TB
but growing fast ( I got two kids at home :) )
Traffic to the server will be writes from my workstation when I backup newly imported images and movies from a local Hdd. Perhaps 8 to 16 GB now and then.
Most throughput will come from a windows VM running on the server with torrent downloads from my internet connection 525 Mbit , ~ 60 MBps dl in utorrent.
Otherwise there will mostly be random IO reads from torrents and FTP from the server.
Or the torrent client transmission in freenas with couchpotato.
I want Freenas to handle large DLs, 100GB+, at 60MBps with no problem, with some random reads from the zpool at the sametime.
I will also backup the family's documents, word and excel files . also use crashplan for relatives to backup images to the server.
so how do i setup the server for best performance?
18 GB ram for the freenas VM
6 GB for windows VM
4 GB for Ubuntu VM
How do I config the zpool for best performance?
Would a 100 GB ssd as l2arc be useful due to all the random reads? most data will be hot for a week or so then cold, so most reads would come from the ssd, reducing the load on the drives.
I will dedicated one GBE NIC for internet and one for the LAN. I might get a pair of QLogic QLE 2462 for the server and a 2460 for the workstation too transfer files faster via FC. These cards are so cheap on ebay. If there are 2460 drivers for windows 10.
Any tips and feedback on my build and what to think of configuring the system?
I need some input on how to configure the server for best performance.
Hardware:
32GB ECC
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Xeon 1220v3 (not yet ordered)
I will started with a mix of drives and replace them in the coming months
1x some thumb drive to boot ESXi from
1x Intel X25-M G2 80GB for VMs.
Storage drives will run raidz2:
3x HGST 4TB NAS
1 2TB wd green
1 2TB Samsung
1 3TB wd , something, cant remember now.
The last 3 drives will obviously be replaced with 3 HGST 4 TB NAS drives later on.
ESXi
VMs:
FreeNAS
Windows
Ubuntu
pfsense
My movie and music collection will take up the most part and redundancy isn't really critical.
But my collection of dSLR raw files will also be on here, but its currently only about 1.5TB
but growing fast ( I got two kids at home :) )
Traffic to the server will be writes from my workstation when I backup newly imported images and movies from a local Hdd. Perhaps 8 to 16 GB now and then.
Most throughput will come from a windows VM running on the server with torrent downloads from my internet connection 525 Mbit , ~ 60 MBps dl in utorrent.
Otherwise there will mostly be random IO reads from torrents and FTP from the server.
Or the torrent client transmission in freenas with couchpotato.
I want Freenas to handle large DLs, 100GB+, at 60MBps with no problem, with some random reads from the zpool at the sametime.
I will also backup the family's documents, word and excel files . also use crashplan for relatives to backup images to the server.
so how do i setup the server for best performance?
18 GB ram for the freenas VM
6 GB for windows VM
4 GB for Ubuntu VM
How do I config the zpool for best performance?
Would a 100 GB ssd as l2arc be useful due to all the random reads? most data will be hot for a week or so then cold, so most reads would come from the ssd, reducing the load on the drives.
I will dedicated one GBE NIC for internet and one for the LAN. I might get a pair of QLogic QLE 2462 for the server and a 2460 for the workstation too transfer files faster via FC. These cards are so cheap on ebay. If there are 2460 drivers for windows 10.
Any tips and feedback on my build and what to think of configuring the system?