Hunter Mitchell
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I have been looking to build centralized storage for my two virtualization hosts currently running Promox. I went ahead and swapped from ESXi/vCenter. I am wanting to get a solid foundation before I start throwing VMs on this setup. Before I dive deep into everything, there are a few things I want to point out:
Server & Motherboard: SV-6028U-TR4T+ / X10DRU-i+
Processor(s): (x2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM (M393A2G40DB0-CPB)
HBA: Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E SAS 8-Port 12Gb/s PCIe
Storage NIC: AOC-STGN-i2S Rev2.1 (10 gbit)
Storage Drives:
I seriously appreciate anyone's help. Forgive me if I have forgotten anything or placed this in the wrong topic.
Thanks!
- This is a homelab environment, not production
- I have no real previous experience with TrueNAS, ZFS, or iSCSI
- I know I am running with consumer-grade SSD's
- I have redundant power supplies, PDUs, and battery backups (though I only have one power source/grid)
- I have already read over the "" post
Server & Motherboard: SV-6028U-TR4T+ / X10DRU-i+
Processor(s): (x2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM (M393A2G40DB0-CPB)
HBA: Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E SAS 8-Port 12Gb/s PCIe
Storage NIC: AOC-STGN-i2S Rev2.1 (10 gbit)
Storage Drives:
- BOOT (mirrored)
- (x2) Supermicro SSD-DM064-64GB SATADOM
- VM Storage (mirrored vdevs w/ mirrored SLOG - iSCSI)
- (x4) Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD
- (x2) Intel Optane M.2 SSD P1600X 58GB SLOG
- Media (RAIDZ2 - NFS)
- (x8) Seagate Exos 4TB (4kn 12Gbps SAS) (7E8 ST4000NM0095)
- Would NFS be more performant for my use-case and hardware?
- Do I really need a mirrored SLOG for my use-case?
- Write Amplification
- Configuring ashift, block size, recordsize, etc.
- Should I deviate from default values?
- SPARSE volume /TRIM/UNMAP support?
- Ideally, I would like to manage storage space within the hypervisor itself (set alarms, etc.)
- I know VMFS 6 supported this on ESXi, but not sure about Promox
- Is there anything I am missing or failed to take into consideration?
I seriously appreciate anyone's help. Forgive me if I have forgotten anything or placed this in the wrong topic.
Thanks!