I can't complete the setup in my mind. There is single HP C7000 blade server with 32 CPU and 4 TB of memory. I need 30 TB usable storage space. It should be fast enough for virtualization kind of standard web servers.
HP Bl460c Gen9 only supports a pair of 2.5 Sata drives. I don't want to invest Sata SSD's, while NVME more durable and cheap. But there is no option to connect U2 or M2 disks to blades.
Another option is building a storage server. There are redundant F8 blade switches that supports 40G TCP as I know. And there are flexilom cards on blades. I already have 16 TB M2 NVME on my Dell R730, it has two 100G mellanox cards. Can I go hybrid with addition of spinning drives? Which software you recommend?
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HP Bl460c Gen9 only supports a pair of 2.5 Sata drives. I don't want to invest Sata SSD's, while NVME more durable and cheap. But there is no option to connect U2 or M2 disks to blades.
Another option is building a storage server. There are redundant F8 blade switches that supports 40G TCP as I know. And there are flexilom cards on blades. I already have 16 TB M2 NVME on my Dell R730, it has two 100G mellanox cards. Can I go hybrid with addition of spinning drives? Which software you recommend?
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