Hello!
I'm currently happily running FreeNAS on an ESXi host but as I would like to play around some more with virtualization without accidentally interfering with the FreeNAS (and a couple of other services such as ELK and Ubiquiti controller) I have been considering running them (and the other services) on a separate bare metal host.
As I'm living in an apartment I don't have much space and noise should be kept to a minimum. My current setup (E3-1240v5/32GB/4TB) in a Fractal Design R5 case is running cool and quiet however I won't realistically have room for two full size cases.
As I see it I have a few options:
Put the E3 mATX in a cube style case like the Fractal Design Node 804 and whatever other host I decide on in something similar.
Get rid of the E3 and get something mITX to replace it with and put them in something smaller as a Node 304.
Bite the bullet and stick with an AIO.
I would say budget is around €2000 ($2400) for whatever I need to buy cpu/mb/mem/case/psu. I'll add some more storage later on (probably raid10 10TB drives or something similar).
Let me hear your throughts..
I'm currently happily running FreeNAS on an ESXi host but as I would like to play around some more with virtualization without accidentally interfering with the FreeNAS (and a couple of other services such as ELK and Ubiquiti controller) I have been considering running them (and the other services) on a separate bare metal host.
As I'm living in an apartment I don't have much space and noise should be kept to a minimum. My current setup (E3-1240v5/32GB/4TB) in a Fractal Design R5 case is running cool and quiet however I won't realistically have room for two full size cases.
As I see it I have a few options:
Put the E3 mATX in a cube style case like the Fractal Design Node 804 and whatever other host I decide on in something similar.
- Limits whatever I decide to get for my other host to mATX or smaller.
- Might be too big and bulky with 2x 804 cases.
- Use the E3 for NAS or VM?
Get rid of the E3 and get something mITX to replace it with and put them in something smaller as a Node 304.
- No real second hand market for server parts here in Europe so it would end up being expensive.
- Even more constrained in what hosts to get (Xeon-D or C3XXX).
- Use the E3 for NAS or VM?
Bite the bullet and stick with an AIO.
- Could stick with a full size case. Easy to keep cool and quiet.
- Could keep the E3 (might be underpowered?).
- Or replace it with something more powerful such as a Silver 4110 or something.
I would say budget is around €2000 ($2400) for whatever I need to buy cpu/mb/mem/case/psu. I'll add some more storage later on (probably raid10 10TB drives or something similar).
Let me hear your throughts..