Hello everyone,
First wanted to thank many of those who helped me in my previous thread many months back. Now that I have a bit more time I am moving into the purchasing and implementing the ESXi AIO Here's the thread that gave me some direction
I have not built a ESXi build or had much experience on the server side of computers however I have tried to do as much research to get caught up. Any critiquing would be appreciated or recommendations from this list.
Hardware:
CPU: Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell
SSD: Agility 3 256GB (re-used from another computer mainly for VMs)
HDD: HGST 4TB NAS drives (Already purchased 4)
RAM: 32GB ECC
MB: SuperMicro MBD-X10SL7-FO (Will reflash LSI 2308 to IT firmware)
PSU: Seasonic 650watt gold (re-use from another computer)
Tower: Rosewill RSV-L4411
LSI HBA: IBM M1015 (reflash with IT firmware)
File System: ESXi ZFS OmniOS, napp-it
Good USB stick
Questions for the Pros:
I have 3 Seagate HDDs 1x 2TB ST2000DM001 and 2x ST3000DM001. Do I even want to use them in the system with them not being NAS quality and known Seagate failure rates?
What is your preferred backup policy using external 3-4TB externals or hotswap cold storage drives?
For MB and ECC memory should you only stick with certified sticks that are on the QVL from the manufacture?
Thanks all for the help!
Respectfully,
Nexillus
First wanted to thank many of those who helped me in my previous thread many months back. Now that I have a bit more time I am moving into the purchasing and implementing the ESXi AIO Here's the thread that gave me some direction
I have not built a ESXi build or had much experience on the server side of computers however I have tried to do as much research to get caught up. Any critiquing would be appreciated or recommendations from this list.
Hardware:
CPU: Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell
SSD: Agility 3 256GB (re-used from another computer mainly for VMs)
HDD: HGST 4TB NAS drives (Already purchased 4)
RAM: 32GB ECC
MB: SuperMicro MBD-X10SL7-FO (Will reflash LSI 2308 to IT firmware)
PSU: Seasonic 650watt gold (re-use from another computer)
Tower: Rosewill RSV-L4411
LSI HBA: IBM M1015 (reflash with IT firmware)
File System: ESXi ZFS OmniOS, napp-it
Good USB stick
Questions for the Pros:
I have 3 Seagate HDDs 1x 2TB ST2000DM001 and 2x ST3000DM001. Do I even want to use them in the system with them not being NAS quality and known Seagate failure rates?
What is your preferred backup policy using external 3-4TB externals or hotswap cold storage drives?
For MB and ECC memory should you only stick with certified sticks that are on the QVL from the manufacture?
Thanks all for the help!
Respectfully,
Nexillus
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