I was able to get a good deal on some 4TB 7200RPM SAS drives and bought enough to fill my Chassis! Since I'm replacing all my 1TB drives and have already off loaded my data to temp storage I have the opportunity to move things around or change my build a bit.
My current Build is;
I5-3350
16G Mem (DDR3 ECC) (I know I should upgrade memory, this is in the works to 32GB)
x2 LSI 9210 -8i SAS controllers
x10 WD red 1TB 5400rpm
1 dual port 10G NIC
1 4 port 10/100/1000 NICs
* this box is on it's own UPS and is set to gracefully shutdown on power loss after 5 mins
1 10G switch (for storage network between servers)
1 FE switch for work (normal\basic traffic)
Newer build swaps on the Hard drives for HGST 4TB SAS drives
so, my question(s) is this
I recently upgrade my workstation to a 500G SSD which leaves a 120G SSD, I was going to put this in as a SLOG drive...thoughts?
I had the 1TB drives in one volume RAIDZ2, with 3 iSCSI luns and 2 SMB shares; 2 iscsi were 2TB each and 1 2GB (quarm) , and SMB was 1 TB each
Since I'm adding 6 additional drives, would it be better to split my Disks into more volumes? what would be the benefit
I mainly use this as a host for VMs in my lab, 6 servers (3 vmware, 3 Hyper-V) running up to as many as 100VMs
anyways what do you think about the disk set up\options
My current Build is;
I5-3350
16G Mem (DDR3 ECC) (I know I should upgrade memory, this is in the works to 32GB)
x2 LSI 9210 -8i SAS controllers
x10 WD red 1TB 5400rpm
1 dual port 10G NIC
1 4 port 10/100/1000 NICs
* this box is on it's own UPS and is set to gracefully shutdown on power loss after 5 mins
1 10G switch (for storage network between servers)
1 FE switch for work (normal\basic traffic)
Newer build swaps on the Hard drives for HGST 4TB SAS drives
so, my question(s) is this
I recently upgrade my workstation to a 500G SSD which leaves a 120G SSD, I was going to put this in as a SLOG drive...thoughts?
I had the 1TB drives in one volume RAIDZ2, with 3 iSCSI luns and 2 SMB shares; 2 iscsi were 2TB each and 1 2GB (quarm) , and SMB was 1 TB each
Since I'm adding 6 additional drives, would it be better to split my Disks into more volumes? what would be the benefit
I mainly use this as a host for VMs in my lab, 6 servers (3 vmware, 3 Hyper-V) running up to as many as 100VMs
anyways what do you think about the disk set up\options