I'm browsing this forum all the time, but I've finally come around to start a thread.
I currently have two home-built E3-based servers in my home lab (seen here) that both have dual roles - hypervisor and NAS. I'm getting rather limited by what I can do, and would like to build a dedicated hypervisor, and dedicate my other two servers to just being NAS'.
What I want is a dual CPU 2011-3 server that will have a single CPU (probably an E5-2630v3) and 64-128GB of RAM to start. I can add an additional CPU and RAM later. I wish I could wait for EPYC to release (if anything, for prices to come down a bit), but the build's gotta happen before October. I don't mind going to ebay to get some things used, but I've never built a dual CPU system, so I don't know exactly what I should look for or get.
Build’s Name: TLSIWGTBFQSTBIAGMIO (The Last Server I Will Get To Build For Quite Some Time Because I Am Getting Married In October)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: Windows Server 2016 & Hyper-V or VMware
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
Motherboard: I'm thinking Supermicro, but their motherboard selection is crazy. ATX or E-ATX, 16 DIMM slots, and the right PCI slots for a RAID controller and 10GbE.
Chassis: Supermicro CSE-216 (Already picked up this on ebay)
Drives: I'm thinking I'll just pick up some server pulls on ebay. I'd like to give 15k drives a shot with 2x for the host OS, and 4-8x 146-300GB drives for VMs.
RAM: Depends on the mobo, but 64-128GB
Add-in Cards: RAID controller . I'd probably be fine with another IBM M5015, but am open to recommendations for this system.
Power Supply: Included with the chassis
Any and/or recommendations would be appreciated.
I currently have two home-built E3-based servers in my home lab (seen here) that both have dual roles - hypervisor and NAS. I'm getting rather limited by what I can do, and would like to build a dedicated hypervisor, and dedicate my other two servers to just being NAS'.
What I want is a dual CPU 2011-3 server that will have a single CPU (probably an E5-2630v3) and 64-128GB of RAM to start. I can add an additional CPU and RAM later. I wish I could wait for EPYC to release (if anything, for prices to come down a bit), but the build's gotta happen before October. I don't mind going to ebay to get some things used, but I've never built a dual CPU system, so I don't know exactly what I should look for or get.
Build’s Name: TLSIWGTBFQSTBIAGMIO (The Last Server I Will Get To Build For Quite Some Time Because I Am Getting Married In October)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: Windows Server 2016 & Hyper-V or VMware
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
Motherboard: I'm thinking Supermicro, but their motherboard selection is crazy. ATX or E-ATX, 16 DIMM slots, and the right PCI slots for a RAID controller and 10GbE.
Chassis: Supermicro CSE-216 (Already picked up this on ebay)
Drives: I'm thinking I'll just pick up some server pulls on ebay. I'd like to give 15k drives a shot with 2x for the host OS, and 4-8x 146-300GB drives for VMs.
RAM: Depends on the mobo, but 64-128GB
Add-in Cards: RAID controller . I'd probably be fine with another IBM M5015, but am open to recommendations for this system.
Power Supply: Included with the chassis
Any and/or recommendations would be appreciated.