Advise on Dell R730xd

[Dk3]

I am going to upgrade on my subsidiary company server. Need some kind advise on this 13th Gen Dell server. Current infrastructure is running Windows 2012R2 with Hyper V on 3x R710, das and couple of old R310(mixed of hyper V and esxi).

VM running:
2x AD, windows file server(5TB), 3x light application with sql, 5x cpanel, 2x dns server

Likely taking up 2xR730xd for replacement.

Drive Bays type
1. 18x 1.8" SSD, 8x 3.5" SAS/Sata, 2x 2.5" SAS/SSD
2. 24 x 2.5” + 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA, 4 NVMe Express Flash PCIe

Option 1 has benefit of cheap big 3.5" sata for backup while 1.8" for vm os

Option 2 able to havie all mixture of 2.5" sas/ssd, but without big cheap sata drive.

Dell HDD is expensive, i will be only getting a small set from them and rest purchase on ebay. So which option will be recommended 1.8" or 2.5"?

CPU: E5-2630v3
RAM: 64/128GB 2133mt/s ddr4
Raid: H730P
Nic: daughter card 4port 1G, connectx-3 dp 40gb(ebay)
Switch: recomendation?

Any advise on component i should change to make it more worth ?

 

[TangoWhiskey9]

The NVMe drives are a completely different class and I'm not sure why you would need them for that workload.

I would do 3.5" for big cheap backup or maybe just do that for one of the two chassis. Get a 1 and a 2. You'd diversify your storage models/ types and batches.

 

[Dk3]

The NVMe drives are a completely different class and I'm not sure why you would need them for that workload.

I would do 3.5" for big cheap backup or maybe just do that for one of the two chassis. Get a 1 and a 2. You'd diversify your storage models/ types and batches.

Only the 5x cpanel require very high traffic web and email which result in kind of heavy sql database I/O. For AD and windows file share is for the local staff whereby iops requirement are lesser.

A great idea to obtain each chassis each. I will try to sum up to see feasibility on the hdd distribution.

How about CPU? Do you think i should get higher range for future proof, maybe e5-2650v3 10core ?

 

[TangoWhiskey9]

Heavy web traffic you'd want faster clock speeds right?

 

[Dk3]

Heavy web traffic you'd want faster clock speeds right?

Likely we will be getting one more server therefore going to E5-2630v3 in order to lower the budget. Having clustering to distribute the load after analyzing the current traffic and application usage.

Any recommendation for good 1.8" sata ssd ?