Hello experts,
I have inherited Supermicro 6047R with 24 3TB SATA hard drives. Now we have openfiler with iscsi for ESX set up. There is build in LSI 2108 raid controller and is set up in raid 60. Unfortunately, recently I have some data corruption and recovering all to external hard drive. Once this is done, I plan to reconfigure the whole server and plan to use freeNas. My concern is what raid controller should I use with freeNas that supports hardware raid and supports 24 hard drives. Plan to use raid 60 with 22 hard drives and 2 hot spares. Additionally, 2 x 10GB nic is installed so I can keep that as well. The server has 16GB or ram of which I believe is not enough for using 50TB storage in raid 60. I would like to use it for ESX as iscsi and maybe windows share.
Any advice appreciate it. Thank You
I have inherited Supermicro 6047R with 24 3TB SATA hard drives. Now we have openfiler with iscsi for ESX set up. There is build in LSI 2108 raid controller and is set up in raid 60. Unfortunately, recently I have some data corruption and recovering all to external hard drive. Once this is done, I plan to reconfigure the whole server and plan to use freeNas. My concern is what raid controller should I use with freeNas that supports hardware raid and supports 24 hard drives. Plan to use raid 60 with 22 hard drives and 2 hot spares. Additionally, 2 x 10GB nic is installed so I can keep that as well. The server has 16GB or ram of which I believe is not enough for using 50TB storage in raid 60. I would like to use it for ESX as iscsi and maybe windows share.
Any advice appreciate it. Thank You