Jason Ceballos
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Hello all,
I have a few questions about setup of my Lab and NAS at home. I am currently running FreeNAS 9.0 with this setup...
Cooler Master Case
AMD Athlon X2 AM2 Chip 2.4Ghz Dual Core
ASUS Mobo w/ Built in Gigabit LAN
8GB RAM DDR2
Added PCI Gig LAN Card for LAN Aggregation
Running FreeNAS off of a 4gb USB Drive from Micro Center
(2) 1TB Seagate Barracuda SATA Desktop HD's (7200 RPM)
(1) 320GB WD Desktop Drive (7200 RPM)
(2) 500GB WD Desktop Drives (7200 RPM)
(1) Samsung 120GB SSD
I did some research initially when setting this up and have it setup this way...
ZFS with the two terabyte drives striped, the 320 as a spare, and the SSD as the ZIL Cache drive. And finally I have the two 500gb drives setup as an iSCSI mount for a ESXi host
(A Dell Optiplex 790 w/ a Sandy Bridge Core i7 w/ HT)
128GB SSD
320GB Seagate SATA HD
8GB RAM
so I can run my VM's datastore through it. What I would like to know is what would you guys recommend for a better setup? I basically want some room to install some VM's (which I have) and make use of all the storage the best I can. My ESXi machine has a Qlogic iSCSI PCI-e card I configured to mount the iSCSI target on boot for the ESXi server.
I just ordered a Intel Quad NIC PCI-X card for the FreeNAS server and will do the same for the ESXi Dell server as well. Any suggestions on a better way to handle what I am asking would be greatly appreciated.
I have a few questions about setup of my Lab and NAS at home. I am currently running FreeNAS 9.0 with this setup...
Cooler Master Case
AMD Athlon X2 AM2 Chip 2.4Ghz Dual Core
ASUS Mobo w/ Built in Gigabit LAN
8GB RAM DDR2
Added PCI Gig LAN Card for LAN Aggregation
Running FreeNAS off of a 4gb USB Drive from Micro Center
(2) 1TB Seagate Barracuda SATA Desktop HD's (7200 RPM)
(1) 320GB WD Desktop Drive (7200 RPM)
(2) 500GB WD Desktop Drives (7200 RPM)
(1) Samsung 120GB SSD
I did some research initially when setting this up and have it setup this way...
ZFS with the two terabyte drives striped, the 320 as a spare, and the SSD as the ZIL Cache drive. And finally I have the two 500gb drives setup as an iSCSI mount for a ESXi host
(A Dell Optiplex 790 w/ a Sandy Bridge Core i7 w/ HT)
128GB SSD
320GB Seagate SATA HD
8GB RAM
so I can run my VM's datastore through it. What I would like to know is what would you guys recommend for a better setup? I basically want some room to install some VM's (which I have) and make use of all the storage the best I can. My ESXi machine has a Qlogic iSCSI PCI-e card I configured to mount the iSCSI target on boot for the ESXi server.
I just ordered a Intel Quad NIC PCI-X card for the FreeNAS server and will do the same for the ESXi Dell server as well. Any suggestions on a better way to handle what I am asking would be greatly appreciated.