Nicklebon
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I've got an old Dell 2900 at home that is currently handling my VM and storage needs. to say it is getting long in the tooth is an understatement. I'm likely going to replace in the near future with a Supermicro Xeon-D platform. ATM I have not decided which one. When I put the current box into service I just used the Dell's PERC raid card and built a 6TB array and then broke into a few VMFS datastores. While that was easy it does not seem the most efficient use of space. I run several small linux VMs for speciifc needs but most of the storage is used by a Windows server that acts as central storage and backup the whole house. The Windows Server then encrypts and backs up important data to S3.
How are folks handling storage on self contained esxi boxes these days?
How are folks handling storage on self contained esxi boxes these days?