Is anyone using the Microserver Gen10 Plus with VSAN? I know the Microserver Gen 10 Plus is on the HCL for ESXI, but I'm not seeing it on the HCL for VSAN so before committing to it, I wanted to see if anyone is using it. I know the onboard SATA controller has to be in AHCI mode as the S100i isn't supported but since I'm looking at VSAN anyway, I wouldn't want the S100i to do anything anyway. I dug around and wasn't finding anything so I figured I'd ask, any info, good or bad? Thanks.
HPE Microserver Gen 10 Plus - VSAN
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Not really a useful thing for vSAN, you need 10G networking and so on.
If you just want something off HCL to play with then maybe but yeah not even the most useful system for that.
If you want small and on vSAN HCL I think some of the supermicro X11SDV systems are on the list, with inbuilt 10G and many more chances for NVMe then the make more sense (and more noise)
look at this to get some ideas. (Also decent rdimm ram is cheaper even if the systems cost a bit more)
www.virtuallyghetto.com
If you just want something off HCL to play with then maybe but yeah not even the most useful system for that.
If you want small and on vSAN HCL I think some of the supermicro X11SDV systems are on the list, with inbuilt 10G and many more chances for NVMe then the make more sense (and more noise)
look at this to get some ideas. (Also decent rdimm ram is cheaper even if the systems cost a bit more)
Supermicro E300-9D (SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP) is a nice ESXi & vSAN kit
Supermicro kits such as the E200-8D is a very popular platform amongst the VMware community and with powerful Xeon-based CPUs and support for up to 128GB of memory, it is perfect for running a kill…
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I'm in the process of building out a 3x Gen 10+ vSAN cluster (waiting on some hardware right now) and while it's not in the HCL, I used the low profile PCIe slot to house a dual SFP+ port Intel x520 w/ DAC's. Gives me the 10G I need for vSAN.
I will stress this is experimental, I'm currently building it out so it may not work, but it should.
I will stress this is experimental, I'm currently building it out so it may not work, but it should.