Hi guys
I was looking for some recommendations on what I could use software wise to provide storage to my VMware Lab, this is the kit I have:
2 x Dell R710s running VMware ESXi 6 (one with 288GB RAM, the other a measily 48GB but soon to be upgraded), both have 6 x 450GB 15K SAS drives and 2 x Qlogic / BC-1020 10GbE SFP+ PCIe cards
1 x Dell R510 with 32GB RAM and dual QC procs, this unit has 8 x 450GB Samsung SSDs sitting in it and a Dell H310 RAID Controller and 1 x Qlogic / BC-1020 10GbE SFP+ PCIe cards
On the switch side:
1 x Cisco 4948-10G-E with 2 x 10GbE X2 modules
3 x Cisco 3560E (10G model) also with 2 x 10GbE X2 modules
I bought the R510 with the intention of using it as a storage node full of SSDs aimed at maximum performance but having tried FreeNAS I see that it doesn't appear to support the BC-1020 10GbE cards which is annoying!
So with this I'm looking for some recommendations from you guys on what free software you would choose to run on the R510 to maximise the performance of those SSDs. I was hoping to present LUNs to VMware via 10GbE iSCSI using the BC-1020's.
Any suggestions?
I was looking at:
FreeNAS but doesn't seem to work with the BC-1020
ScaleIO I just saw and downloaded however I only have one storage node full of SSDs....
Much appreciate any info.
Thanks
I was looking for some recommendations on what I could use software wise to provide storage to my VMware Lab, this is the kit I have:
2 x Dell R710s running VMware ESXi 6 (one with 288GB RAM, the other a measily 48GB but soon to be upgraded), both have 6 x 450GB 15K SAS drives and 2 x Qlogic / BC-1020 10GbE SFP+ PCIe cards
1 x Dell R510 with 32GB RAM and dual QC procs, this unit has 8 x 450GB Samsung SSDs sitting in it and a Dell H310 RAID Controller and 1 x Qlogic / BC-1020 10GbE SFP+ PCIe cards
On the switch side:
1 x Cisco 4948-10G-E with 2 x 10GbE X2 modules
3 x Cisco 3560E (10G model) also with 2 x 10GbE X2 modules
I bought the R510 with the intention of using it as a storage node full of SSDs aimed at maximum performance but having tried FreeNAS I see that it doesn't appear to support the BC-1020 10GbE cards which is annoying!
So with this I'm looking for some recommendations from you guys on what free software you would choose to run on the R510 to maximise the performance of those SSDs. I was hoping to present LUNs to VMware via 10GbE iSCSI using the BC-1020's.
Any suggestions?
I was looking at:
FreeNAS but doesn't seem to work with the BC-1020
ScaleIO I just saw and downloaded however I only have one storage node full of SSDs....
Much appreciate any info.
Thanks