David E
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Chassis and MOBO: SSG-2028R-E1CR48L https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/2028/SSG-2028R-E1CR48L.cfm
CPUs: (2) 8C/16T E5-2620V4 2.1G 20M 8GT 85W R3 2011 R0
RAM: (8) MEM-DR432L-CL01-ER24 32GB DDR4-2400 2Rx4 LP ECC REG DIMM
NIC: AOC-MTGN-I2S-O AOC-MTGN-I2S RETAIL PACK
SLOG: Intel DC P3700 400GB, NVMe PCIe3.0,HET,MLC AIC 20nm
L2 ARC: Intel DC P3600 800GB, NVMe PCIe3.0,MLC AIC 20nm
FLASH: (24) Samsung 850 EVO,1TB,SATA 6Gb/s,VNAND,2.5",7.0mm,19nm
BOOT: Samsung 850 Pro,128GB,SATA 6Gb/s,VNAND,2.5",7.0mm,19nm
Usage is as primary storage for multiple VMware servers.
Planning to run it as 8 vdevs that are 3 way mirrored, for 8TB of usable capacity. This is probably overkill in the IOPS department, but to get the chassis through Supermicro you have to buy 24 drives minimum.. my ideal would have been to get 12 2TB drives to maximize future capacity expansion. But as is I still have 24 more drive bays that can be expanded to.
I'm curious on any comments anyone has, particularly if anyone has used this kind of chassis before. I'm also considering running dedupe, which (I assume) should be viable with 256GB of RAM, but I'm curious if anyone has documented how dedupe affects performance.
Thanks!
CPUs: (2) 8C/16T E5-2620V4 2.1G 20M 8GT 85W R3 2011 R0
RAM: (8) MEM-DR432L-CL01-ER24 32GB DDR4-2400 2Rx4 LP ECC REG DIMM
NIC: AOC-MTGN-I2S-O AOC-MTGN-I2S RETAIL PACK
SLOG: Intel DC P3700 400GB, NVMe PCIe3.0,HET,MLC AIC 20nm
L2 ARC: Intel DC P3600 800GB, NVMe PCIe3.0,MLC AIC 20nm
FLASH: (24) Samsung 850 EVO,1TB,SATA 6Gb/s,VNAND,2.5",7.0mm,19nm
BOOT: Samsung 850 Pro,128GB,SATA 6Gb/s,VNAND,2.5",7.0mm,19nm
Usage is as primary storage for multiple VMware servers.
Planning to run it as 8 vdevs that are 3 way mirrored, for 8TB of usable capacity. This is probably overkill in the IOPS department, but to get the chassis through Supermicro you have to buy 24 drives minimum.. my ideal would have been to get 12 2TB drives to maximize future capacity expansion. But as is I still have 24 more drive bays that can be expanded to.
I'm curious on any comments anyone has, particularly if anyone has used this kind of chassis before. I'm also considering running dedupe, which (I assume) should be viable with 256GB of RAM, but I'm curious if anyone has documented how dedupe affects performance.
Thanks!