Posting for a quick sanity check for a build we are thinking about doing for a bulk of our production VMs to run on.
We have had a similar build running for over a year which hosts all of our VDI VMs through NFS storage on Soalris 11.2 with napp-it Pro.
The build we have is working well for VDI, but for the mixed workload we will be tossing at it with production servers we are wondering if a ZIL would be necessary. I know that we cannot use a ZeusRAM due to the 2.5" drive format and I have not seen anything similar to a ZeusRAM that would fit in the 2.5" SuperMicro chassis. NVMe in a PCIe slot maybe? Really just looking to see if anyone else has done a build like this and found that they needed a ZIL. Thanks in advance.
We have had a similar build running for over a year which hosts all of our VDI VMs through NFS storage on Soalris 11.2 with napp-it Pro.
- SUPERMICRO 2027R-AR24NV Chassis (Supermicro | Products | SuperServers | 2U | 2027R-AR24NV)
- Quantity 8 - Kingston 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Reg (128GB RAM total, thinking about going to 256 or even 512)
- Quantity 1 - Xeon E5-2609 v2 2.5GHz Server CPU
- Quantity 20 - 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSDs
- Quantity 1 - 256GB Samsung 850 Pro for Solaris 11.2 OS
- Intel X520-DA2 10Gb Ethernet
The build we have is working well for VDI, but for the mixed workload we will be tossing at it with production servers we are wondering if a ZIL would be necessary. I know that we cannot use a ZeusRAM due to the 2.5" drive format and I have not seen anything similar to a ZeusRAM that would fit in the 2.5" SuperMicro chassis. NVMe in a PCIe slot maybe? Really just looking to see if anyone else has done a build like this and found that they needed a ZIL. Thanks in advance.
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