Some of you may remember my Final Bachelor Build from last year. Well, I'm coming up on my 1-year anniversary now and you know what marriage is all about...SACRIFICE!
In all seriousness, I'd like to consolidate my home storage as much as I can as I'm running more hardware than I need and/or am making use of. I can easily eliminate one node by combining my VM storage and Bulk storage (media, surveillance video, VM snapshots, software, personal data, etc.) into a single server physical server
Currently I'm running my VM storage on a baremetal FreeNAS server that is shared to my 2 ESXi hosts. I have a separate baremetal UnRAID server that houses all my other data. Now that I'm in the process of upgrading my spinners from 8TB Seagate SMR's to 10TB WD Gold drives, combining my storage is more viable than ever.
Putting everything on FreeNAS would be one way to go as it would be easy to simply just create a new RAIDz2 pool for my spinners and be done with it. However, the whole drama that happened with FreeNAS Corral has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth and I'm a little concerned with FreeNAS' future. So before I decide to go that route, I wanted to get some opinions on what other comparable alternatives are out there.
Ideally I'd like to up my storage's performance if I'm going to take the time to reconfigure things so I'm not considering non-striped RAID setups (UnRAID/SnapRAID/FlexRAID) at this time.
In all seriousness, I'd like to consolidate my home storage as much as I can as I'm running more hardware than I need and/or am making use of. I can easily eliminate one node by combining my VM storage and Bulk storage (media, surveillance video, VM snapshots, software, personal data, etc.) into a single server physical server
Currently I'm running my VM storage on a baremetal FreeNAS server that is shared to my 2 ESXi hosts. I have a separate baremetal UnRAID server that houses all my other data. Now that I'm in the process of upgrading my spinners from 8TB Seagate SMR's to 10TB WD Gold drives, combining my storage is more viable than ever.
Putting everything on FreeNAS would be one way to go as it would be easy to simply just create a new RAIDz2 pool for my spinners and be done with it. However, the whole drama that happened with FreeNAS Corral has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth and I'm a little concerned with FreeNAS' future. So before I decide to go that route, I wanted to get some opinions on what other comparable alternatives are out there.
Ideally I'd like to up my storage's performance if I'm going to take the time to reconfigure things so I'm not considering non-striped RAID setups (UnRAID/SnapRAID/FlexRAID) at this time.