X9SRL-F w/ E5-2650 and 64GB RAM running ESXi 6.0U2
Guests are:
Windows 2012 R2 DC/DNS/DHCP/CA/RADIUS
Sophos UTM 9
Windows 7 NextPVR recording backend for Kodi clients
Ubuntu MySQL for Kodi clients
MineOS Minecraft server
FreeNAS 11 exporting storage (mirrored 4TB HDD) for time shifting live TV and media library
Looking for advice and suggestions on a RAID controller for the local ESXi datastore. Current configuration is 2 x 300Gb Intel S3500 SSD mirrored via a Dell H310 flashed to IR mode.
Local datastore is pretty sluggish as you would expect and I'm looking to increase performance if I can do so for around $100.
I've done a fair bit of research and think an LSI 9260 based card like an IBM M5015 might be a good upgrade.
Are there any other options in the $100 range that would fit my need? What about this : 9265-8I LSI 9265-8I SAS RAID CNTL W/ 1GB CACHE | eBay ? Almost seems too good to be true.
Guests are:
Windows 2012 R2 DC/DNS/DHCP/CA/RADIUS
Sophos UTM 9
Windows 7 NextPVR recording backend for Kodi clients
Ubuntu MySQL for Kodi clients
MineOS Minecraft server
FreeNAS 11 exporting storage (mirrored 4TB HDD) for time shifting live TV and media library
Looking for advice and suggestions on a RAID controller for the local ESXi datastore. Current configuration is 2 x 300Gb Intel S3500 SSD mirrored via a Dell H310 flashed to IR mode.
Local datastore is pretty sluggish as you would expect and I'm looking to increase performance if I can do so for around $100.
I've done a fair bit of research and think an LSI 9260 based card like an IBM M5015 might be a good upgrade.
Are there any other options in the $100 range that would fit my need? What about this : 9265-8I LSI 9265-8I SAS RAID CNTL W/ 1GB CACHE | eBay ? Almost seems too good to be true.