Hello,
i looked at "Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?" and got even more confused at it. I'm building my home server, one part of it would be "NAS" which would run unRaid so i figured out i would need to passtrough HBA to it. There will be other machines running like ruTorrent and my custom downloaded shows downloader (it would handle seeding and savings downloaded shows to correct places in library as well as replacing HDTV with web-dl releases). Mind that downloading tv shows and movies of the internet is actually NOT against the law in my country. Last thing that i would like to run on it is PLEX.
I already bought some used case for 16HDDs and i'm now waiting for it to arrive (which should take about a week) so it is ideal time to plan the hardware that would go inside it. It should be very low power consuming as there will be not much need for actual computing power - for the time being it should save as file storage described above and not as the windows development lab (tough it is possible that i would want run windows servers on in the future ).
So i got the feeling that "IBM Express ServeRAID M1015" should be IOMMU compatible and probably will work with case internal sas expander.
But for the rest of hardware i'm totally confused and more i read more confused i get. I would probably like to go with AMD A6 as these have low TDP and are cheap, but i can't find out board that would be granted to support IOMMU and allow SAS controller in PCIe slot.
My idea was (after i found out that only amd FX procesors on and 9xx and 8xx chipsets supports iommu):
IBM Express ServeRAID M1015
16GB DDR3 RAM
GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3
AMD FX-4100
But i'm unsure about IOMMU support passtrough of M1015? And ideally even the onboard SATA controller? In ESXi 5.0 or 5.1?
Can you make me somewhat less confused and help me finally pick something?
i looked at "Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?" and got even more confused at it. I'm building my home server, one part of it would be "NAS" which would run unRaid so i figured out i would need to passtrough HBA to it. There will be other machines running like ruTorrent and my custom downloaded shows downloader (it would handle seeding and savings downloaded shows to correct places in library as well as replacing HDTV with web-dl releases). Mind that downloading tv shows and movies of the internet is actually NOT against the law in my country. Last thing that i would like to run on it is PLEX.
I already bought some used case for 16HDDs and i'm now waiting for it to arrive (which should take about a week) so it is ideal time to plan the hardware that would go inside it. It should be very low power consuming as there will be not much need for actual computing power - for the time being it should save as file storage described above and not as the windows development lab (tough it is possible that i would want run windows servers on in the future ).
So i got the feeling that "IBM Express ServeRAID M1015" should be IOMMU compatible and probably will work with case internal sas expander.
But for the rest of hardware i'm totally confused and more i read more confused i get. I would probably like to go with AMD A6 as these have low TDP and are cheap, but i can't find out board that would be granted to support IOMMU and allow SAS controller in PCIe slot.
My idea was (after i found out that only amd FX procesors on and 9xx and 8xx chipsets supports iommu):
IBM Express ServeRAID M1015
16GB DDR3 RAM
GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3
AMD FX-4100
But i'm unsure about IOMMU support passtrough of M1015? And ideally even the onboard SATA controller? In ESXi 5.0 or 5.1?
Can you make me somewhat less confused and help me finally pick something?
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