Dear community,
Before I repurpose all in one fileserver, I have a few questions for the experts.
I'm currently running hardware RAID10 VMFS with ESXI 5.5. Multiple VM's are used for fileserver, streaming server, etc. I'm finding performance to be very limited on the IO side, even though I'm running with a cache module + BBU.
I wish to use Napp-it All-In-One and pass through my IBM M1015 controller(IT mode) to a single VM to use for storage. Then use NFS as a VM Datastore from that server.
Hardware:
Supermicro X9-SRL
Xeon E5-2620
128GB DDR3 ECC Reg
4 x 3TB WD RED
2 x 128GB Samsung 830 SSD
Questions:
1) If I use VMXNET3 adapter for Napp-it, how will ESXI communicate with the NFS datastore?? Internally in the vSwitch or across my 1Gbit network? I'm asking because I don't want to be limited to 1Gbit speeds on the NFS datastore.
2) Do I need to both ZIL and L2ARC for my pool? I was thinking about assigning 32-64GB RAM to the storage server.
3) Is it a good idea to run a file server in a VM (Windows 2012), with VMDK files located on the NFS datastore or should I use another option?
Thanks for any replies
BR
Jim
Before I repurpose all in one fileserver, I have a few questions for the experts.
I'm currently running hardware RAID10 VMFS with ESXI 5.5. Multiple VM's are used for fileserver, streaming server, etc. I'm finding performance to be very limited on the IO side, even though I'm running with a cache module + BBU.
I wish to use Napp-it All-In-One and pass through my IBM M1015 controller(IT mode) to a single VM to use for storage. Then use NFS as a VM Datastore from that server.
Hardware:
Supermicro X9-SRL
Xeon E5-2620
128GB DDR3 ECC Reg
4 x 3TB WD RED
2 x 128GB Samsung 830 SSD
Questions:
1) If I use VMXNET3 adapter for Napp-it, how will ESXI communicate with the NFS datastore?? Internally in the vSwitch or across my 1Gbit network? I'm asking because I don't want to be limited to 1Gbit speeds on the NFS datastore.
2) Do I need to both ZIL and L2ARC for my pool? I was thinking about assigning 32-64GB RAM to the storage server.
3) Is it a good idea to run a file server in a VM (Windows 2012), with VMDK files located on the NFS datastore or should I use another option?
Thanks for any replies
BR
Jim