Hey Everyone, first time posting here, so apologies if this should be in a better location. I am trying to build up a couple servers to provide a base for my house as well as my parents. The ultimate goal is I would like to have them running FreeNAS for data storage (Media files and other documentation backup), as well as host PLEX and run VMs for various tasks and labs.
My initial thought from reading on the forum is to install ESXi on a SD card which will be mounted internally. From there, I can host my VMs on one drive (PLEX and FreeNAS for instance) and passthrough the other three disk drives directly to FreeNAS for RAID management. Initial thoughts on this?
To provide some hardware details:
I have two HP Proliant DL360e Gen8 servers with:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2450L 1.8GHz
48GB DDR3 RAM (24GB/processor)
Hard Drive wise I was looking at getting 4x 4TB WD RED (Unless the 6TB drives would be better recommended)
Since I would only have 3 usable drives for FreeNAS, I would essentially run a RAID 5 configuration for a 8TB total capacity. Happy to hear the recommendations and if there is a better way to setup the configuration.
My initial thought from reading on the forum is to install ESXi on a SD card which will be mounted internally. From there, I can host my VMs on one drive (PLEX and FreeNAS for instance) and passthrough the other three disk drives directly to FreeNAS for RAID management. Initial thoughts on this?
To provide some hardware details:
I have two HP Proliant DL360e Gen8 servers with:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2450L 1.8GHz
48GB DDR3 RAM (24GB/processor)
Hard Drive wise I was looking at getting 4x 4TB WD RED (Unless the 6TB drives would be better recommended)
Since I would only have 3 usable drives for FreeNAS, I would essentially run a RAID 5 configuration for a 8TB total capacity. Happy to hear the recommendations and if there is a better way to setup the configuration.