After weeks of waiting I got a new SuperMicro BTO system with the H12SSL-C mainboard and a 16/32 Core 7302 and 128GB RAM, H12SSL-C | Motherboards | Super Micro Computer, Inc.
The same board is also available with 10G nics (but not yet supported on my target OS OmniOS)
I made some tests with a disk pool, an NVMe pool and an Optane pool with and without encryption as this is what requires performance. While sync write seems to have a performance problem with encryption, the other results are promising. As you can load such a system with 24 NVMe system performance may need a jump.
I have also tried a virtualized OmniOS on ESXi 7.0U1 but found NVMe pass-through problems that need some more work. 12G SAS in pass-through mode ex with WD SS530 SAS SSDs are troublefree and nearly as fast as NVMe.
First impression: Up to twice as fast with the Epyc system and same pool compared to a top system from 2019 https://napp-it.org/doc/downloads/epyc_performance.pdf
The same board is also available with 10G nics (but not yet supported on my target OS OmniOS)
I made some tests with a disk pool, an NVMe pool and an Optane pool with and without encryption as this is what requires performance. While sync write seems to have a performance problem with encryption, the other results are promising. As you can load such a system with 24 NVMe system performance may need a jump.
I have also tried a virtualized OmniOS on ESXi 7.0U1 but found NVMe pass-through problems that need some more work. 12G SAS in pass-through mode ex with WD SS530 SAS SSDs are troublefree and nearly as fast as NVMe.
First impression: Up to twice as fast with the Epyc system and same pool compared to a top system from 2019 https://napp-it.org/doc/downloads/epyc_performance.pdf
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