I have a homelab right now.
Xeon 1270v3
X10SLM+-LN4F
32gb ram
3 256gb SSD
48 port gigabit switch
I need additional storage space because I am going to buy another esxi host. Right now, the disk are connected directly to the esxi. I need about 10tb of additional storage for datastore.
I am planning to buy a HBA card and passthrough the card to freenas. Can freenas handle 4 1gb nics? I'm pretty sure I will not have a 4gb connection. What I want is to make sure that each host can have a 1gb connection to the SAN. So if my other host have 4 nic as well, if I dedicated those nics to one guest each, i want to make sure that freenas will be able to split the connection to 4 nics as well instead of just one nic only. I forgot the term for this.
I need to achieve at least 90mbps read/write and transfer speed from each host to nas. So if I am planning to allocate four nics to the freenas, I should make sure that the read/write speed of my freenas is at least 400mbps right?
I am planning to get those SAS drive from ebay and make a raidz2 out of it. Or I could just get WD blacks and use SSD cache on it. Which one is better?
I need a suggestion for a new case. My current lab is on a desktop case. I am okay with barebone servers because I could remove the internals and I will get a free PSU.
Esxi question. Do I need get vmug for this? Currently, I am happy with the free version of esxi. Do I need vsan license if I want to connect my other host to a san?
End result for this server will be:
Freenas
Pfsense
and some other hosts.
Xeon 1270v3
X10SLM+-LN4F
32gb ram
3 256gb SSD
48 port gigabit switch
I need additional storage space because I am going to buy another esxi host. Right now, the disk are connected directly to the esxi. I need about 10tb of additional storage for datastore.
I am planning to buy a HBA card and passthrough the card to freenas. Can freenas handle 4 1gb nics? I'm pretty sure I will not have a 4gb connection. What I want is to make sure that each host can have a 1gb connection to the SAN. So if my other host have 4 nic as well, if I dedicated those nics to one guest each, i want to make sure that freenas will be able to split the connection to 4 nics as well instead of just one nic only. I forgot the term for this.
I need to achieve at least 90mbps read/write and transfer speed from each host to nas. So if I am planning to allocate four nics to the freenas, I should make sure that the read/write speed of my freenas is at least 400mbps right?
I am planning to get those SAS drive from ebay and make a raidz2 out of it. Or I could just get WD blacks and use SSD cache on it. Which one is better?
I need a suggestion for a new case. My current lab is on a desktop case. I am okay with barebone servers because I could remove the internals and I will get a free PSU.
Esxi question. Do I need get vmug for this? Currently, I am happy with the free version of esxi. Do I need vsan license if I want to connect my other host to a san?
End result for this server will be:
Freenas
Pfsense
and some other hosts.