So, I was browsing another forum the other night and saw a link to an amazing deal for a Supermicro X10SRH-CF motherboard. After some quick research I decided to go ahead to buy it. Now I'm almost having some buyer's remorse, I have no idea what to do with it.
I currently have a Dell Cs24-TY with 2x L5520 Xeons and 36GB of RAM that I use for Hyper-V, with my DC, DHCP, and DNS in one VM, Plex in another VM, and other VMs as needed. I also have a CS24-SC with 2x L5420 Xeons and 8GB of RAM that runs Centos that I use for converting/compressing movies for Plex and is soon to be that basis for a ZOL fileserver. To that end I also recently purchased a Dell J23 enclosure. It's just waiting for hard drives.
I could move everything up a tier and get rid of the CS24-SC making the TY into the ZFS server and the new machine my VM host. But this will take a while as I piece together the new server. I could replace everything entirely with the new box but I want ZFS for the fileserver and Windows for everything else which means virtualizing ZFS. Or I could sell the new motherboard for a profit and just go with what I've got.
I currently have a Dell Cs24-TY with 2x L5520 Xeons and 36GB of RAM that I use for Hyper-V, with my DC, DHCP, and DNS in one VM, Plex in another VM, and other VMs as needed. I also have a CS24-SC with 2x L5420 Xeons and 8GB of RAM that runs Centos that I use for converting/compressing movies for Plex and is soon to be that basis for a ZOL fileserver. To that end I also recently purchased a Dell J23 enclosure. It's just waiting for hard drives.
I could move everything up a tier and get rid of the CS24-SC making the TY into the ZFS server and the new machine my VM host. But this will take a while as I piece together the new server. I could replace everything entirely with the new box but I want ZFS for the fileserver and Windows for everything else which means virtualizing ZFS. Or I could sell the new motherboard for a profit and just go with what I've got.