Hey Everyone, this is going to be a mildly long-winded post, but the short and sweet is it’s time for a major overhaul of my home environment. My environment is mostly (re: almost entirely) built from parts I’ve gotten from work, over the years through either hardware retirements or (recently) the company shutting down. My current setup was built to be power efficient, while still having the horse-power to run what I need (*Plex*, game servers, etc.), but I’ve run out of space yet again and have no more capacity to add additional storage without additional hardware. My current setup is as follows (generic names used):
Utilized
HOST01 – Lenovo P330 Tiny w/ 4 Port NetXtreme NIC
Network
Baremetal01 – Custom Build (All drives standalone)
DAS – ThinkServer SA120
Unutilized
Datto Siris 4 Enterprise
HP Aruba 2930M
Dell PowerEdge R330
Dell PowerEdge R320
Misc Hardware (10GB cards, Additional P330’s, >Intel Gen 7 desktops, Quadro RTX 4000(s), 6TB WD reds, etc.)
Initially I was hoping to get one of the old Synology NASes from work which would’ve handled storage requirements for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out so now I’m looking at what I can do with what I have. My initial thought is to rip out the Mobo from the current baremetal and put something in more low power to convert it to, functionally, just a NAS (running something like TrueNAS), then use the Sirus as the new replacement server, populating the remaining front bays and doing a direct connect fiber (10GB) to the NAS. Of course this is going to be terribly power inefficient, so I was hoping someone may have some better ideas/different. Virtualization-wise I’d like to keep the Siris baremetal as the P330 has more than enough spare resources but I’m open any changes at the end of the day.
Utilized
HOST01 – Lenovo P330 Tiny w/ 4 Port NetXtreme NIC
-OS: ESXI 7
-CPU: i7 9700T
-Memory: 32 GB
-PCI: NetXtreme 4 Port NIC (1GB)
-Storage: 2x 500GB NVMe
-VMs
-VM1: Firewall
-VM2: Security
-VM3: Linux General Purpose
-VM4: Windows General Purpose
Network
-1x Netgear GS110TP
Baremetal01 – Custom Build (All drives standalone)
-CPU: Intel i7 8700
-Mobo: Asrock B365 Pro4
-Memory: 32GB (2x 16GB)
-PCIe: LSI SAS 9280-8e, LSI SAS2 2008 Falcon
-Storage: 2x 500GB NVMe, 4x 8TB WD Red, 8x 6TB WD Red
-PSU: CX750M
-OS: Windows
DAS – ThinkServer SA120
-12 Bays, 4TB WD REDs, ~36.3TB Usable
Unutilized
Datto Siris 4 Enterprise
-CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4214
-Mobo: Gigabyte MD71-HB0
-Memory: 64 GB DDR4 ECC
-NICs: 2x 10GbE, 2x 1GbE, 1x MGMT
-Storage: 6x 6TB, 2x 2.5” bays, 2x NVMe slot
-PSU: 2x 800W
HP Aruba 2930M
Dell PowerEdge R330
Dell PowerEdge R320
Misc Hardware (10GB cards, Additional P330’s, >Intel Gen 7 desktops, Quadro RTX 4000(s), 6TB WD reds, etc.)
Initially I was hoping to get one of the old Synology NASes from work which would’ve handled storage requirements for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out so now I’m looking at what I can do with what I have. My initial thought is to rip out the Mobo from the current baremetal and put something in more low power to convert it to, functionally, just a NAS (running something like TrueNAS), then use the Sirus as the new replacement server, populating the remaining front bays and doing a direct connect fiber (10GB) to the NAS. Of course this is going to be terribly power inefficient, so I was hoping someone may have some better ideas/different. Virtualization-wise I’d like to keep the Siris baremetal as the P330 has more than enough spare resources but I’m open any changes at the end of the day.
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