IamSpartacus
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MODS: Somehow I missed the "Will it FreeNAS" section so feel free to move this thread there.
I'm looking to setup a storage server to present to my home VMware vSphere cluster using a current server I have that's not really being utilized. I've read up on FreeNAS many times and am about to go on a deep dive but before I do so I wanted to get some feedback on how well the following system would perform as strictly a SAN/shared storage server for a vSphere cluster. This server will do NOTHING but present storage, iSCSI or NFS (depending on which performs better), to vSphere and will not run any additional applications (I have VMs/dockers for that elsewhere).
Hardware is as follows:
I'm thinking I can stick both sets of 4 SSDs into 2 different RAID10 vdevs and have a "top tier" datastore (Hitachi's) for my high priority VMs and a "second tier" datastore for my less important VMs. This server will be connected to my vSphere cluster through a Cisco SG350XG-24F switch via DACs (though upgrading to optics shortly).
So before I get real deep into the research, I'm looking for some validation from some FreeNAS pro's out there that first off all my hardware is supported, and secondly that I don't have any major bottlenecks here.
Appreciate the feedback.
I'm looking to setup a storage server to present to my home VMware vSphere cluster using a current server I have that's not really being utilized. I've read up on FreeNAS many times and am about to go on a deep dive but before I do so I wanted to get some feedback on how well the following system would perform as strictly a SAN/shared storage server for a vSphere cluster. This server will do NOTHING but present storage, iSCSI or NFS (depending on which performs better), to vSphere and will not run any additional applications (I have VMs/dockers for that elsewhere).
Hardware is as follows:
- SuperMicro X10SDV-2C-7TP4F (Xeon D-1508 w/onboard LSI2116, Intel X552 SFP+)
- 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133 ECC RDIMMs
- 4 x 400GB Hitachi HUSSL4040ASS600 SAS SSDs
- 4 x 800GB Intel S3500 SATA SSDs
I'm thinking I can stick both sets of 4 SSDs into 2 different RAID10 vdevs and have a "top tier" datastore (Hitachi's) for my high priority VMs and a "second tier" datastore for my less important VMs. This server will be connected to my vSphere cluster through a Cisco SG350XG-24F switch via DACs (though upgrading to optics shortly).
So before I get real deep into the research, I'm looking for some validation from some FreeNAS pro's out there that first off all my hardware is supported, and secondly that I don't have any major bottlenecks here.
Appreciate the feedback.
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