I'm about to embark on a rebuild of my current server and am hoping for some tips.
Use case: ESXi Lab, Serious Plex Server, Server 2012 R2 and a few other VMs
Backup destination via site to site VPN (I have gigabit isp from Google)
Rendering client for Autodesk
Current hardware: Asrock x79 with i7-3770k, 32MB RAM
Areca 1223 RAID Card with 8x WD 3TB Red in Raid 10 (plus a couple SSDs as datastores)
What I would like to do is massively increase storage performance and capacity with freenas or napp-it and add cores and RAM. I picked up a couple of E5-2670s and an S2600Cp mobo and 128 GB RAM. I'm also thinking about picking up an M4308 chassis.
I also have an m1015 HBA in IT mode plus a SAS expender.
My plan is to build the new system and add it to Vsphere, I have one one 5tb HDD and a few smaller ones that I can use as temp storage to migrate VMs over from the Areca storage array, then I can pull the 3TB drives out of the Areca array, setup freenas then transfer the VMs over to the new zpool.
Is this a bad idea? Suggestions welcome.
Use case: ESXi Lab, Serious Plex Server, Server 2012 R2 and a few other VMs
Backup destination via site to site VPN (I have gigabit isp from Google)
Rendering client for Autodesk
Current hardware: Asrock x79 with i7-3770k, 32MB RAM
Areca 1223 RAID Card with 8x WD 3TB Red in Raid 10 (plus a couple SSDs as datastores)
What I would like to do is massively increase storage performance and capacity with freenas or napp-it and add cores and RAM. I picked up a couple of E5-2670s and an S2600Cp mobo and 128 GB RAM. I'm also thinking about picking up an M4308 chassis.
I also have an m1015 HBA in IT mode plus a SAS expender.
My plan is to build the new system and add it to Vsphere, I have one one 5tb HDD and a few smaller ones that I can use as temp storage to migrate VMs over from the Areca storage array, then I can pull the 3TB drives out of the Areca array, setup freenas then transfer the VMs over to the new zpool.
Is this a bad idea? Suggestions welcome.