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Hello,
I'm writing here for asking you some suggestion for my new whitebox.
Until last week my whitebox consisted in my macmini with 16gb ram and a 128GB SSD where I have installed VMware Fusion for my virtualization experiment.
2 days ago I have bought my friend whitebox that he decided to buy another one however, those arethe specs of my new whitebox:
Asus P9X79 Pro
Intel Core i7-3930K
64GB RAM DDR-3
Integrated Intel Gigabit LAN
AMD Radeon HD 5770
IBM M1015 flashed in IR Mode
LSI 9260-4i
2xHDD 500GB Seagate 7200RPM
4x OCZ Agility 3 SSD 120GB
1x OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS
1x Sandisk Extreme 240GB
4x Sandisk 120GB SSD
Now, my plan was to do an AiO and I have already read various thread about this however, would you suggest me a good setup for this hardware?
I have read that I can enable 30 day trial LSI Advanced feature (Cachecade Pro 2.0, LSI Fast Path etc...) but what happen after 30 days? I have read that I can re-enter the trial key for additional 30 days but I can't find if I can do this forever (I now that if I use this feature I have to buy the full key or the hardware key but this is just a lab for learning and try different things) or if after 60 days the Datastores are locked until I buy a key.
My intention is to setup a VMware vCloud Nested Lab with all the feature available (Shared Storage, SRM, Backup, VCOPS, vFabric etc) and maybe also an Hyper-V Lab but what I'm really interested on Microsoft side is a SCCM Lab (maybe nested in Hyper-V but i know that maybe I currently running too much xD).
Would you suggest me a good setup (especially for storage)?
Thank You Very much!!!!!
One more thing: I don't care about data safety, this will be a learning lab and what I need are pure performance so RAID0 would be my preferred choice,
I'm writing here for asking you some suggestion for my new whitebox.
Until last week my whitebox consisted in my macmini with 16gb ram and a 128GB SSD where I have installed VMware Fusion for my virtualization experiment.
2 days ago I have bought my friend whitebox that he decided to buy another one however, those arethe specs of my new whitebox:
Asus P9X79 Pro
Intel Core i7-3930K
64GB RAM DDR-3
Integrated Intel Gigabit LAN
AMD Radeon HD 5770
IBM M1015 flashed in IR Mode
LSI 9260-4i
2xHDD 500GB Seagate 7200RPM
4x OCZ Agility 3 SSD 120GB
1x OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS
1x Sandisk Extreme 240GB
4x Sandisk 120GB SSD
Now, my plan was to do an AiO and I have already read various thread about this however, would you suggest me a good setup for this hardware?
I have read that I can enable 30 day trial LSI Advanced feature (Cachecade Pro 2.0, LSI Fast Path etc...) but what happen after 30 days? I have read that I can re-enter the trial key for additional 30 days but I can't find if I can do this forever (I now that if I use this feature I have to buy the full key or the hardware key but this is just a lab for learning and try different things) or if after 60 days the Datastores are locked until I buy a key.
My intention is to setup a VMware vCloud Nested Lab with all the feature available (Shared Storage, SRM, Backup, VCOPS, vFabric etc) and maybe also an Hyper-V Lab but what I'm really interested on Microsoft side is a SCCM Lab (maybe nested in Hyper-V but i know that maybe I currently running too much xD).
Would you suggest me a good setup (especially for storage)?
Thank You Very much!!!!!
One more thing: I don't care about data safety, this will be a learning lab and what I need are pure performance so RAID0 would be my preferred choice,
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