I started a new job recently and need to run a home lab to get up to speed. I have an old server which I was hoping to setup as a home lab.
It's a bit of a mixed bag but has an onboard SAS2008 RAID Controller along with 4 2TB HDDs hooked up.
I would like to strip out the old graphics card, sound card and run it as a headless ESXi Server.
If I wanted the 4 x 2 TB HDD's to be more main datastore what would be the best way to go about doing this keeping in mind reasonable redundancy and any disk speed IO advantages I might be able to see along the way?
It's a bit of a mixed bag but has an onboard SAS2008 RAID Controller along with 4 2TB HDDs hooked up.
I would like to strip out the old graphics card, sound card and run it as a headless ESXi Server.
If I wanted the 4 x 2 TB HDD's to be more main datastore what would be the best way to go about doing this keeping in mind reasonable redundancy and any disk speed IO advantages I might be able to see along the way?