Lab upgrade?

[AFisher]

It's that time for me, I'm looking to upgrade my lab...this will be kind of a downgrade for me at this point!
Currently running 3 SuperMicro x9dri-ln4f+ in a CSE-815, each with 256G of Ram and 2x E-2630 xeon processors. I am running a 10G network on HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb and a Ubiquiti US-16-XG.

Storage is a 40TB freeNas on similar hardware with less ram

I currently run Server 2019 on the three CSE-815 in a clustered hyper-v set up, generally I am running between 10 & 100 VMs (Most a flavor of Windows, some linux here and there)... I have noticed when I hit about 10 VMs on a node, the VMs become slow/sluggish, I believe this is network related as all of my storage is over 10G and if I move the VMs to local storage on a node, they are much...MUCH better! I can accept some degradation but at times it's unbearable!!!

So, I'm looking at upgrades, newer hardware, faster CPU/Memory looking for a "complete" server class (rack) system that either has buildin 10G(fiber) or can accept my NICs...


Any suggestions these days? I'ld like to stay under 1K for each server

 

[NickN85]

I'm running a 2 node S2D cluster on Supermicro MBD-X10SRL-F-B with E5 2670 v3s 128 GB RAM dual 40Gbe ConnectX 3 E/W dual 10 Gbe N/S each node has 3 DC P4600 2TB and 28 3TB SAS HDDs. System works great I get 3GB r/w inside VMs and 1GB+ as network storage. I have a third X11 system with an E3 1275v5 as an standalone DC, the file share witness and an ISCSI target for backups of the nodes. All in all I am very happy with the system overall.