The thing is that the 48x spinning rust will still need to be connected to it. And the Chenbro is compatible with full height cards. To split this up, it'd end up taking 8U of rack space per SAN node...
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The other thing about the X10 series (which I don't like) is that it's still pcie 3.0. If I'm gonna spend money to upgrade...I want better than that. My next upgrade will most likely be an Epyc based system with (hopefully) pcie 5.0 slots.
Until then...el-cheapo X9 series is it.
It's really not. CEPH has its place, but an active-active SAN does make things fairly easy. I'm using Starwind SAN on these nodes (on Proxmox as the base/bare metal) and the rest of the Proxmox cluster is completely run over ISCSI (for boot and a few other things) and will run NVME-oF shortly (which is why this upgrade is taking place).I said **I** would, also because I don't have access to that cheap Chassis
That being said I definitively have more experience in NAS than SAN. The single Point of Failure of Networking (even with dual NICs, dual switches + LAGG + Spanning Tree Protocol etc) makes it highly unpractical for storing VMs over iSCSI/NVMeOF, unless it's as Part of a CEPH Cluster or similar, which typically requires more than 5-7 Nodes, preferrably Symmetric / Balanced (no BIG.little
I haven't even started with that (NVMe) so I probably have a few Concepts that are somewhat wrong.
But even with that, a cluster aware file system is really not that critical in my case, because almost all compute in my application writes to the Postgres databases (and I'm moving to an active-active multi master for that as well). It's only the Postgres servers that need ultra fast, low latency disk access.
That's why it's active-active...Without Cluster if your SAN goes down each and every VM on every cluster Node will crash/panic since it won't be able to write any longer, wouldn't it ?
Are you using the Free Version ?
Management via PowerShell
Two SAN nodes, real-time replication between them and ISCSI multi-path. If one goes down...the cluster doesn't even hiccup.Yes, I'm using the free version, but you're a bit behind the curve. The KVM version of Starwind SAN has no restrictions...It allows HA LUN creation via the web-gui...
No Windows needed (although they do use wine internally in the VM...which is ...well, meh.)Where will you be consuming that storage from? Might be worth doing server to server 56gbps or 100gbps connections, all you need is 3 cards with double ports, and each server is connected to each others.
Yup. A good network fabric is essential, especially if you're doing RDMA... Still cleaning up the wiring and hooking up the rest of it, but switched out the ICX 6610 (was doing a bunch of 10g ports) to a Mellanox SX6036 (36x40gbps ports, and it'll do 56gbps on each port with the right cables and NICs).
40/56g DAC cables are thick....and heavy...should have gone with AOC cables...well, maybe someday.
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[edit] and another one from the same seller: Samsung MZ7LH3T8HMLT-00005 3.84TB Laptop 2.5 SATA Solid State Drive | eBay
[edit] and another one from the same seller: Samsung MZ7LH3T8HMLT-00005 3.84TB Laptop 2.5 SATA Solid State Drive | eBay
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You are not alone. I offered 90I offered 80 / Piece for 6 Pieces so I guess I'm automatically rejected
The first one.Just to be sure: which one of these are you using ?
- Virtual SAN Free (VSAN Free)
- Virtual HCI Appliance Free
It looks that I need to register with all my (full) Contact Details either Way
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I think this is QLC.
I think this is QLC.
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QLC isn’t necessarily bad. Most people will never go near the limits of enterprise TLC endurance.
Looking at the data sheet for the Micron 5210 ION they’ve pretty lousy write IOPS and write speed. Definitely a WORM drive. Endurance is a bit lower than the 5100 ECO.
I guess they were a pretty good deal new if you upgraded from HDDs and had mostly WORM data. Still, even this post might be a decent deal depending on use case.
I guess they were a pretty good deal new if you upgraded from HDDs and had mostly WORM data. Still, even this post might be a decent deal depending on use case.
Quite decent Micron 5210 ION 3.8 TB Specs but these are more read intensive oriented as well. Would be great for a Plex/Jellyfin usage.
For the moment I am only selling a couple of 10DWPD 3.2TB drives:Where are you selling your 3.84TBs
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They are good deals but not great deals!! I have a handful of 3.2TB U.2 and a big pile of 3.84TB SATA that I keep around for a hypothetical future project.
Only one each?For the moment I am only selling a couple of 10DWPD 3.2TB drives:
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They are good deals but not great deals!! I have a handful of 3.2TB U.2 and a big pile of 3.84TB SATA that I keep around for a hypothetical future project.