I'm just now treading into the waters of network attached storage and all of these new connectors and networking protocols I didn't know existed now...exist...to me, lol.
Anyway, I was attracted to the prospect of a multi-node VM host with seperate SM847s for storage, however, I'll likely be using them as network attached storage.
Really, as far as heavy usage is concerned, the most reading from the storage I'll probably be actively doing when not testing things out in VMs will be Plex usage for me and a few family members. That's it.
That being said, I don't want to run into a bottleneck if I decide I want to do some more heavy lifting.
Also, if I go with a 4 node supermicro server, I'm going to be limited per node to 1 low-profile pci-e device. I want to avoid having to buy all these different network adapters when I want to upgrade. I was considering a few options
-Quad Gigabit LP Nic & Teaming them for 4 Gbps over Ethernet
-10 GbE NIC
-DDR Infiniband Adapters ( DDR Switches are relatively cheap compared to QDR Counterparts)
Thoughts?
Anyway, I was attracted to the prospect of a multi-node VM host with seperate SM847s for storage, however, I'll likely be using them as network attached storage.
Really, as far as heavy usage is concerned, the most reading from the storage I'll probably be actively doing when not testing things out in VMs will be Plex usage for me and a few family members. That's it.
That being said, I don't want to run into a bottleneck if I decide I want to do some more heavy lifting.
Also, if I go with a 4 node supermicro server, I'm going to be limited per node to 1 low-profile pci-e device. I want to avoid having to buy all these different network adapters when I want to upgrade. I was considering a few options
-Quad Gigabit LP Nic & Teaming them for 4 Gbps over Ethernet
-10 GbE NIC
-DDR Infiniband Adapters ( DDR Switches are relatively cheap compared to QDR Counterparts)
Thoughts?