Quick intro - presently i have a dell t3400 running multiple VM's and a synology 1511+ NAS in raid 6. NAS is running PLEX media server. I am running out of space on the NAS and thought i would upscale. Initially i was going to make a fileserver and have it connect to the ESXi box, but why not have both in one box... save some power and space (not really after I add in 24 hdds!)
So final build must be a Esxi server and storage box.
Present Esxi is a Dell t3400 quad intel core2 Q9450 and 4gb of RAM. Software is ESXi 4
Budget: $3000 USD.
My initial thoughts are a Norco 24 bay box with SATA HDD's into a Hardware Raid Card. I am happy to sacrifice some HDD's to keep $ down
Build’s Name: Massive Online Media Center (MOMC)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: ESXi 4
CPU: Xeon? Can i get Dual?
Motherboard: dual CPU possible? Will have to check ESX licence on this aswell
Chassis: NORCO 24 Bay
Drives: SATA non server grade is fine
RAM: as much as i can
Add-in Cards: min 2 nics, prefer 4 for 2x2 failover (on board or pci)
Power Supply: Dual redundant if possible
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: Media Storage, VM storage.
Software: I have no idea how to present the sets to the ESX host - cant be that hard!
I have no idea for the underlying FS: ie ZFS etc. I run linux on all machines at home so am very comfortable around command line.
If you can dream it, i can buy it!
Thanks for your help.
WookieNZ
So final build must be a Esxi server and storage box.
Present Esxi is a Dell t3400 quad intel core2 Q9450 and 4gb of RAM. Software is ESXi 4
Budget: $3000 USD.
My initial thoughts are a Norco 24 bay box with SATA HDD's into a Hardware Raid Card. I am happy to sacrifice some HDD's to keep $ down
Build’s Name: Massive Online Media Center (MOMC)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: ESXi 4
CPU: Xeon? Can i get Dual?
Motherboard: dual CPU possible? Will have to check ESX licence on this aswell
Chassis: NORCO 24 Bay
Drives: SATA non server grade is fine
RAM: as much as i can
Add-in Cards: min 2 nics, prefer 4 for 2x2 failover (on board or pci)
Power Supply: Dual redundant if possible
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: Media Storage, VM storage.
Software: I have no idea how to present the sets to the ESX host - cant be that hard!
I have no idea for the underlying FS: ie ZFS etc. I run linux on all machines at home so am very comfortable around command line.
If you can dream it, i can buy it!
Thanks for your help.
WookieNZ
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