Herr_Merlin
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Hi all,
I am looking to setup a home all in one server with old leftover parts.
The question is now virtualized freenas or bare metal with VMs?
Hardware I got:
Supermicro X9DRW-CFT
2x Xeon E5-2680 v2
16x16GB DDR3 ECC reg
4x1TB NVMe SSD on a PCIe Card with PLX
1x Vega 56
1x AMD GPRO 4300
1x HP P212
1x HP P420 in IT Mode (This is basically a 9211-8i with 2008 chipset)
10x6TB SAS
2x100GB Samsung SSDs (old enterprise with SATA and PLP)
2x800GB SAS SSD from HGST
all within a Supermicro 2U case with a 12bay
What I want to run on this thing:
-gateway vm
-about 10 windows VMs
-plex with GPU
-Terminal Server for game streaming with the vega
-nextcloud
So the question, go with freenas as the host OS and use jails or go with vmware?
Pool layout would be if I go for virtualized (8Cores + 64GB RAM):
10x6TB as RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 with 2x 100GB as SLOG (if going ESXi if going native I would not need those?) on the HP P420 passed to the VM
4xNVMe RAIDZ1 for VMs (Should still be fast enough) passed to the VM
2x 800GB SAS on the P212 in RAID1 for Host OS, Gateway VM and freenas boot disk
My question would be if going for freenas as bare metal, can I pass through the GPUs?
Is there a convertor for vmware VMs I already setup at another host, which I want to decommission?
Hardware Update:
Supermicro X9DRW-CFT
2x Xeon E5-2680 v2
16x16GB DDR3 ECC reg
4x1TB NVMe SSD on a PCIe Card with PLX
1x Vega 56
1x AMD GPRO 4300
1x Adaptc 5805 with BBU für OS RAID1
1x HP H240 HBA (IT Mode) SAS 12G
10x6TB SAS
2x480GB Samsung SSDs for HW RAID1 for ESXi OS
2x800GB SAS SSD from HGST
all within a Supermicro 2U case with a 12bay
Hardware Update 2.0 now kinda working.. NVMe issues see below
Supermicro X9DRW-CFT
2x Xeon E5-2680 v2
16x16GB DDR3 ECC reg
4x1TB NVMe SSD on a PCIe Card with PLX
1x Vega 56
1x AMD GPRO 4300
1x Adaptc 5805 with BBU für OS RAID1
1x Supermicro AOC-S2308L-L8i IT Mode
10x6TB SAS
2x480GB Samsung SSDs for HW RAID1 for ESXi OS
2x800GB SAS SSD from HGST
all within a Supermicro 2U case with a 12bay
I am looking to setup a home all in one server with old leftover parts.
The question is now virtualized freenas or bare metal with VMs?
Hardware I got:
Supermicro X9DRW-CFT
2x Xeon E5-2680 v2
16x16GB DDR3 ECC reg
4x1TB NVMe SSD on a PCIe Card with PLX
1x Vega 56
1x AMD GPRO 4300
1x HP P212
1x HP P420 in IT Mode (This is basically a 9211-8i with 2008 chipset)
10x6TB SAS
2x100GB Samsung SSDs (old enterprise with SATA and PLP)
2x800GB SAS SSD from HGST
all within a Supermicro 2U case with a 12bay
What I want to run on this thing:
-gateway vm
-about 10 windows VMs
-plex with GPU
-Terminal Server for game streaming with the vega
-nextcloud
So the question, go with freenas as the host OS and use jails or go with vmware?
Pool layout would be if I go for virtualized (8Cores + 64GB RAM):
10x6TB as RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 with 2x 100GB as SLOG (if going ESXi if going native I would not need those?) on the HP P420 passed to the VM
4xNVMe RAIDZ1 for VMs (Should still be fast enough) passed to the VM
2x 800GB SAS on the P212 in RAID1 for Host OS, Gateway VM and freenas boot disk
My question would be if going for freenas as bare metal, can I pass through the GPUs?
Is there a convertor for vmware VMs I already setup at another host, which I want to decommission?
2x Xeon E5-2680 v2
16x16GB DDR3 ECC reg
4x1TB NVMe SSD on a PCIe Card with PLX
1x Vega 56
1x AMD GPRO 4300
1x Adaptc 5805 with BBU für OS RAID1
1x HP H240 HBA (IT Mode) SAS 12G
10x6TB SAS
2x480GB Samsung SSDs for HW RAID1 for ESXi OS
2x800GB SAS SSD from HGST
Hardware Update 2.0 now kinda working.. NVMe issues see below
Supermicro X9DRW-CFT
2x Xeon E5-2680 v2
16x16GB DDR3 ECC reg
4x1TB NVMe SSD on a PCIe Card with PLX
1x Vega 56
1x AMD GPRO 4300
1x Adaptc 5805 with BBU für OS RAID1
1x Supermicro AOC-S2308L-L8i IT Mode
10x6TB SAS
2x480GB Samsung SSDs for HW RAID1 for ESXi OS
2x800GB SAS SSD from HGST
all within a Supermicro 2U case with a 12bay
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