I'm looking for advice. I need to finish my home systems redo. It's going to be based off of the new Minisforum MS-01 mini PCs.
I'm going to setup 2 of the MS-01 12i5 (still waiting on both) as a HA OPNsense firewall. I have a Motorola modem that has a single 2.5gbs Ethernet LAN connection.
Q1: The modem connects to what? Should I connect the Modem to a 2.5gbs switch and use port mirroring to the two firewalls?
Q2: Should I go with Mikrotik behind the FW, since they have cheap but fast switches?
The other three MS-01 (I have already) all are the same 13i9 based. All three have 96GB RAM, a Samsung PM9A3 7.6TB NVMe U.2, a Corsair MP600 PRO NH 2TB PCIe in the Gen3 x4 slot. I'm not sure what to put in the open PCIe slot yet...
I'm planning to setup HCI/HA with the three PCs as the cluster nodes.
Q3: Proxmox/Incus/Harvester/XCP-ng all seem to have good HCI/HA options and all cost the same. Anything stand out as a best option or a flat out avoid?
Q4: Ceph/Longhorn all look to play nice with storage on the node and should perform well with the specs available to them. Anything stand out to you as preferred, or something to avoid given the hardware I'm using?
Q5: The storage network looks like it should be a dedicated 25gbs+ switch with nothing else on it. I have fast drives but only 3, would 25gps be enough. 100gps looks rather expensive but doable, if Mikrotik is an acceptable option.
Q6: Ceph needs a fast background sync network and public network - should they both be the same speed?
Q7: What PCIe NIC should I put into the PCs for the storage network? Single or Dual (for private/public)? The MS-01 has PCIe 4 x8 for the NIC.
Thanks for any help you may offer! Cheers!
I'm going to setup 2 of the MS-01 12i5 (still waiting on both) as a HA OPNsense firewall. I have a Motorola modem that has a single 2.5gbs Ethernet LAN connection.
Q1: The modem connects to what? Should I connect the Modem to a 2.5gbs switch and use port mirroring to the two firewalls?
Q2: Should I go with Mikrotik behind the FW, since they have cheap but fast switches?
The other three MS-01 (I have already) all are the same 13i9 based. All three have 96GB RAM, a Samsung PM9A3 7.6TB NVMe U.2, a Corsair MP600 PRO NH 2TB PCIe in the Gen3 x4 slot. I'm not sure what to put in the open PCIe slot yet...
I'm planning to setup HCI/HA with the three PCs as the cluster nodes.
Q3: Proxmox/Incus/Harvester/XCP-ng all seem to have good HCI/HA options and all cost the same. Anything stand out as a best option or a flat out avoid?
Q4: Ceph/Longhorn all look to play nice with storage on the node and should perform well with the specs available to them. Anything stand out to you as preferred, or something to avoid given the hardware I'm using?
Q5: The storage network looks like it should be a dedicated 25gbs+ switch with nothing else on it. I have fast drives but only 3, would 25gps be enough. 100gps looks rather expensive but doable, if Mikrotik is an acceptable option.
Q6: Ceph needs a fast background sync network and public network - should they both be the same speed?
Q7: What PCIe NIC should I put into the PCs for the storage network? Single or Dual (for private/public)? The MS-01 has PCIe 4 x8 for the NIC.
Thanks for any help you may offer! Cheers!
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