Hello to All,
I'm looking to upgrade local storage on esxi host, and after reviewing the great posts and articles on this site I would like to
ask for any advice and comments from more experienced posters here to hopefully avoid any dead-ends as I move forward. I would
also like to give a big "Thank You" to all the contributors - this is by far the most useful site I have found for this type of
info.
The esxi host is for home use only, and current setup is as follows:
Supermicro X9SCM-iif
Xeon E3-1230v2
32g ram
Adaptec 5805 w/bbu 8x4tb Hitachi 7k4000 raid 5 (passed through to Win7 vm for media storage, backed to separate server)
Adaptec 5805 w/bbu 4x500gb Seagate raid 10 (vm backups, low i/o vms)
motherboard sata ports 4xCrucial M4 256gb (10-15 vm's)
Workload is probably light compared to most here - streaming to media extenders, vm's for family members, video
encoding/processing, usenet indexing with small db, torrents, test vm's.
One of the Crucial M4s failed, which got me thinking about redundancy on main datastores. After SSD exchange, I setup a raid 10
volume with the M4's, which performed poorly and experienced drive dropouts.
My primary goal is to have redundancy for main vm datastore using the Crucial M4's and increase read/write/iops performance as
well. I prefer a hardware raid solution vs hba + software raid.
The tentative plan is to use LSI 9271-8icc + cachevault to host 2 raid 10 arrays, 4x500gb seagate and 4x256gb M4 SSD.
Uncertainties:
1 - Am I overlooking less expensive option that delivers same performance? This is overkill for current needs, but I prefer to
invest in a stable 3-5yr solution rather than annual equipment churn. Don't currently need Cachecade, but Fastpath would benefit
2 - will the M4 hold up? Could not find long-term use examples. Budget will not permit new raid controller AND drives
3 - will the Adaptec 5805 and LSI controllers co-exist same motherboard
Thanks for any guidance you can offer...
I'm looking to upgrade local storage on esxi host, and after reviewing the great posts and articles on this site I would like to
ask for any advice and comments from more experienced posters here to hopefully avoid any dead-ends as I move forward. I would
also like to give a big "Thank You" to all the contributors - this is by far the most useful site I have found for this type of
info.
The esxi host is for home use only, and current setup is as follows:
Supermicro X9SCM-iif
Xeon E3-1230v2
32g ram
Adaptec 5805 w/bbu 8x4tb Hitachi 7k4000 raid 5 (passed through to Win7 vm for media storage, backed to separate server)
Adaptec 5805 w/bbu 4x500gb Seagate raid 10 (vm backups, low i/o vms)
motherboard sata ports 4xCrucial M4 256gb (10-15 vm's)
Workload is probably light compared to most here - streaming to media extenders, vm's for family members, video
encoding/processing, usenet indexing with small db, torrents, test vm's.
One of the Crucial M4s failed, which got me thinking about redundancy on main datastores. After SSD exchange, I setup a raid 10
volume with the M4's, which performed poorly and experienced drive dropouts.
My primary goal is to have redundancy for main vm datastore using the Crucial M4's and increase read/write/iops performance as
well. I prefer a hardware raid solution vs hba + software raid.
The tentative plan is to use LSI 9271-8icc + cachevault to host 2 raid 10 arrays, 4x500gb seagate and 4x256gb M4 SSD.
Uncertainties:
1 - Am I overlooking less expensive option that delivers same performance? This is overkill for current needs, but I prefer to
invest in a stable 3-5yr solution rather than annual equipment churn. Don't currently need Cachecade, but Fastpath would benefit
2 - will the M4 hold up? Could not find long-term use examples. Budget will not permit new raid controller AND drives
3 - will the Adaptec 5805 and LSI controllers co-exist same motherboard
Thanks for any guidance you can offer...