Build’s Name: Old Horse (but better than nothing)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: ESXi 5.5 / OmniOS / napp-it
CPU: 2x Xeon E5645
Motherboard: Dell C2100 server mobo
Chassis: Dell C2100
Drives: 2x 3TB seagates, 4x 500GB seagates, maybe others
RAM: 48GB 1333 1.35v ecc
Add-in Cards: Dell H200 (have yet to flash it to IT mode)
Power Supply: 2x 750w
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: ZFS storage, VMs (Plex, and possibly play with others). Photo/Video storage, document storage. Maybe play with owncloud for my wife's laptop sync.
Other information… This is primarily a storage box. I want to play with Plex to see if I like it, and I'm serving out a couple of squeezeboxes. Nothing heavy duty.
I've searched a bit, and most folks doing these AIO setups are putting VMs and the OmniOS boot from a pair of mirrored SSDs. The ESXi is typically just on a usb stick (with a spare copy on hand).
2 Qs:
-is it necessary to use SSDs for the mirrored OS/VMs? Will I be tremendously disappointed if I just use a couple of the 500gb drives to boot from? (I should be able to boot from the H200, no?)
-as I'm using ESXi / NFS is an SSD slog drive a must? Any way around that? How critical is an SLC SSD vs an MLC device? After all, I don't think I'm going to break any benchmarks with this thing.
Operating System/ Storage Platform: ESXi 5.5 / OmniOS / napp-it
CPU: 2x Xeon E5645
Motherboard: Dell C2100 server mobo
Chassis: Dell C2100
Drives: 2x 3TB seagates, 4x 500GB seagates, maybe others
RAM: 48GB 1333 1.35v ecc
Add-in Cards: Dell H200 (have yet to flash it to IT mode)
Power Supply: 2x 750w
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: ZFS storage, VMs (Plex, and possibly play with others). Photo/Video storage, document storage. Maybe play with owncloud for my wife's laptop sync.
Other information… This is primarily a storage box. I want to play with Plex to see if I like it, and I'm serving out a couple of squeezeboxes. Nothing heavy duty.
I've searched a bit, and most folks doing these AIO setups are putting VMs and the OmniOS boot from a pair of mirrored SSDs. The ESXi is typically just on a usb stick (with a spare copy on hand).
2 Qs:
-is it necessary to use SSDs for the mirrored OS/VMs? Will I be tremendously disappointed if I just use a couple of the 500gb drives to boot from? (I should be able to boot from the H200, no?)
-as I'm using ESXi / NFS is an SSD slog drive a must? Any way around that? How critical is an SLC SSD vs an MLC device? After all, I don't think I'm going to break any benchmarks with this thing.