Hi,
I am planning on switching my customer from FreeNAS (baremetal) to Proxmox->FreeNAS.
I can already hear some of you laughing out loud knowing how crazy I am but I am willing to do it.
They have a few Windows machine running as Servers for various applications and I would like them to become VMs of that main Server.
I have been running that same setup in my personal office for months as a test setup to find out if it was doable or not and it seems to be really stable.
I have a Dell R320 where they have a Dell T430 but we have 3 SMB users + a few VMs whereas they are 15 SMB users and will need a few VMs too.
Anyhow, here are the specs of the machine:
Dell T430
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 (2x6 cores at 2.4Ghz, boosting at 3.2Ghz)
64GB of RAM
256GB NVME cash drive
Intel X540-AT2 (dual port)
MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 (HBA mode)
8 WD Red drives in a RaidZ2
They have had that setup running FreeNAS as an SMB Server only for a year now and it's been great.
They are using iMacs with a 1Gb/s NIC and they will switch soon to iMacPro with 10Gb/s NIC to speed up loading times and rendering also.
I am just curious to see what you guys have to say about the CPU since I've realized (too late) that SMB is a single core process that will benefit of higher clock speed CPU rather than a multi cores CPU.
Knowing that the load on the Server will spike once they will get the new Macs, I am wondering if the CPU won't become a bottleneck.
I have plan on providing them a quote with some extra RAM, an SLOG device and maybe a dual Intel E5-1650V3.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks!
I am planning on switching my customer from FreeNAS (baremetal) to Proxmox->FreeNAS.
I can already hear some of you laughing out loud knowing how crazy I am but I am willing to do it.
They have a few Windows machine running as Servers for various applications and I would like them to become VMs of that main Server.
I have been running that same setup in my personal office for months as a test setup to find out if it was doable or not and it seems to be really stable.
I have a Dell R320 where they have a Dell T430 but we have 3 SMB users + a few VMs whereas they are 15 SMB users and will need a few VMs too.
Anyhow, here are the specs of the machine:
Dell T430
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 (2x6 cores at 2.4Ghz, boosting at 3.2Ghz)
64GB of RAM
256GB NVME cash drive
Intel X540-AT2 (dual port)
MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 (HBA mode)
8 WD Red drives in a RaidZ2
They have had that setup running FreeNAS as an SMB Server only for a year now and it's been great.
They are using iMacs with a 1Gb/s NIC and they will switch soon to iMacPro with 10Gb/s NIC to speed up loading times and rendering also.
I am just curious to see what you guys have to say about the CPU since I've realized (too late) that SMB is a single core process that will benefit of higher clock speed CPU rather than a multi cores CPU.
Knowing that the load on the Server will spike once they will get the new Macs, I am wondering if the CPU won't become a bottleneck.
I have plan on providing them a quote with some extra RAM, an SLOG device and maybe a dual Intel E5-1650V3.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks!