Post your HOME VMWare ESXi Setup

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bds1904

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4 nodes:
  • Rackable 1U Dual Xeon L5420
  • 16GB ECC
  • Q-Logic QLE-2460 Fibre Channel Adapter
  • ESXi 5.0U3
  • No local Disks, Boot from SAN

Storage Server:
  • HP DL380 G2
  • 16GB ECC
  • HP P400 (4x 72GB SAS RAID10 for boot drive)
  • LSI SAS3801E (external SAS storage)
  • LSI SAS 9122-8i (controller for internal SSD's)
  • Q-Logic QLE-2464 4-Port Fibre Channel Adapter (in target mode, serves FC targets to hosts)
  • OI+Napp-It (bare metal)

Regular VM Storage Pool:
  • HP MSA70 25 drive expander
  • 25x 72gb SAS drives
  • 2x 120GB SSD's for ZIL

Media Storage & TV Recording Pool:
  • Rackable SE3016 Expander
  • 5x 2TB drives

FC Views Exported to ESXi Hosts:
  • FC Topology is Point-to-Point
  • Each Host has a dedicated boot LUN, shared ESXi storage and the LUN for Windows Media Center

Offsite server from WholeSaleInternet. Used for hosting & DNS, as well as internal backup AD services, and off-site backup server.


Offsite server from OVH. Used for backup web services, backup internal AD services and 2nd offsite backup.


Total resources.

Yes, this is my HOME setup.
 
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Chuckleb

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That's a lot of small disks (25x72GB). Ever thought about moving to higher density to reduce power or do you like lots of spindles for speed?
 

bds1904

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It's more for fast rebuild speed than anything. Although everything is incrementally backed up and kept for 14 days, it's still easier to reduce the chance of data loss during a rebuild than restore backups. Plus 5 spares is like $60.

The pool sees high disk i/o pretty consistently. A re-sliver with small disks takes about 30 mins w/ average load compared for hours and hours on a big disk.

Where's your home lab setup info Chuckleb?:)
 
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