Im having the following machines
ESXi:
Supermicro X10SRW-F
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2620v3 2.4GHz
64 GB ECC memory
Supermicro PCI-e 2-port Intel 10Gbit Ethernet LAN card RJ45 LP X540
1x Samsung SSD SM863 240GB
FreeNAS:
Supermicro X11SSH-CTF
Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 3.0GHz
64GB ECC memory
8x WD Enterprise 1TB HDD
2x WD Enterprise 2TB HDD
4x Samsung SSD SM863 480GB
1x Intel SSD S3500 80GB
My thoughts for the use of all the harddrives in my NAS is like this:
2x 2TB samba shares for backup
8x 1TB iSCSI either all 8 in a mirrored VDEV or 2 VDEVS with 4 mirrored drives?
4x Samsung SSD in a mirrored VDEV for the single use of running a Pervasive database managing bookings.
1x Intel SSD either as an SLOG for the database VDEV or for the 8x1TB system/data VDEV?
Im a total beginner with all this so bare with me.
I will run 4-6 virtual machines from my ESXI host.
1 windows server 2012 and 3-5 windows 8 clients.
The windows server will be the machine using most of all this space, the clients will each be given 150GB of space for system install nothing else.
My thoughts on the database is that i should run it as an iSCSI LUN with both the database software and the database it self on it. Or should i set it up as an ordinary dataset instead of a ZVOL?
The main goal is for the database to run as smooth as possible, so any help with tweaking, settings, block size, sync-write etc would help me alot!
Does my thoughts sound correct or should i rethink everything?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
ESXi:
Supermicro X10SRW-F
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2620v3 2.4GHz
64 GB ECC memory
Supermicro PCI-e 2-port Intel 10Gbit Ethernet LAN card RJ45 LP X540
1x Samsung SSD SM863 240GB
FreeNAS:
Supermicro X11SSH-CTF
Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 3.0GHz
64GB ECC memory
8x WD Enterprise 1TB HDD
2x WD Enterprise 2TB HDD
4x Samsung SSD SM863 480GB
1x Intel SSD S3500 80GB
My thoughts for the use of all the harddrives in my NAS is like this:
2x 2TB samba shares for backup
8x 1TB iSCSI either all 8 in a mirrored VDEV or 2 VDEVS with 4 mirrored drives?
4x Samsung SSD in a mirrored VDEV for the single use of running a Pervasive database managing bookings.
1x Intel SSD either as an SLOG for the database VDEV or for the 8x1TB system/data VDEV?
Im a total beginner with all this so bare with me.
I will run 4-6 virtual machines from my ESXI host.
1 windows server 2012 and 3-5 windows 8 clients.
The windows server will be the machine using most of all this space, the clients will each be given 150GB of space for system install nothing else.
My thoughts on the database is that i should run it as an iSCSI LUN with both the database software and the database it self on it. Or should i set it up as an ordinary dataset instead of a ZVOL?
The main goal is for the database to run as smooth as possible, so any help with tweaking, settings, block size, sync-write etc would help me alot!
Does my thoughts sound correct or should i rethink everything?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!