AIO ESXi/Storage

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smccloud

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I will be implementing an AIO ESXi/Storage box shortly at work. I am planning on using ZFS for my datastores (all flash), is OmniOS+napp-it or FreeNAS currently the better choice? I am leaning towards the FreeNAS solution just because I don't know how well OmniOS+napp-it will fit on 16GB SATA DOMs.
 

smccloud

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As of right now, I cannot even install OmniOS so its looking like FreeNAS will be the winner.
 

Rand__

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Better choice totally depends on your requirements... :)
If you provide some more of those we can provide better recommendations.
 

smccloud

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Better choice totally depends on your requirements... :)
If you provide some more of those we can provide better recommendations.
Storage for a Skype for Business install. I'll be able to give it around 128GB of RAM.

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Rand__

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Excuse my lack of knowledge by why does Skype f/B need a ton of storage?
But in the end the differences between the two are marginal.
Both have their advantages in certain areas (iScsi vs SMB, slightly different feature set, different paid support options), but unless you have specifics i don't think we can point out relevant points:)

There are other alternatives as well you know, Nexenta or ZFS on Linux...
 

smccloud

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Excuse my lack of knowledge by why does Skype f/B need a ton of storage?
But in the end the differences between the two are marginal.
Both have their advantages in certain areas (iScsi vs SMB, slightly different feature set, different paid support options), but unless you have specifics i don't think we can point out relevant points:)

There are other alternatives as well you know, Nexenta or ZFS on Linux...
Multiple instances of Windows server

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Rand__

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Ok, so whats your hardware?
You looking for nfs or iscsi provided datastore?
 

smccloud

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NFS provided. Dual E5-2660 V4 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 8x M600 512GB SSDs

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Rand__

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Well the SSDs would not be my first choice. And you are not including a proper SLOG device so your write speeds will be abysmal unless you drop sync writing.
See here for a discussion of ESX speeds (Freenas, but same will apply to NappIt)