I found this forum a few days ago when I was researching for my next build. It has been a tremendous help to me in choosing hardware and software. I have decided to build a all-in-one using the following parts,
Case: Fractal Design Define R4
CPU: XEON E3-1245V2
Motherboard: Supermicro X9SAE-V-O
Memory: Hynix DDR3-1600 4x8GB ECC
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB x2
Hard drive: Seagate Constellation ES 2TB x2 (will purchase 3 or 4 more 2TB Sata drives)
PSU:SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W ATX12V
HBA: IBM M1015
I will run about 6-7 VMs on this ESXi host,
1. a Win7 machine for web browsing, MS office, photo processing
2. a Win7 HTPC media server to store ripped bluerays, music, etc. about 2-3 TB. I am planning to add a cable tuner later to make it a Window Media Center server, and use Xbox or Ceton echo to replace my cable boxes.
3. a Windows 2012 server to play around.
4. 2-3 Linux VMs to install Oracle RAC database and Oracle Application servers.
5. an OI/napp-it SAN/NAS server for storage.
Since I am all new to ESX and zfs, I would like to have some advices from experts here on how to configure the drives to have the balance between performance and reliability.
This is what I am planning to,
Have two ZFS pools, one VM pool of the two Samsung SSDs in mirror 1 for all the VMs and Oracle's redo logs and temp tablespace. I figure 256GB should be big enough for all the OS installs? The other pool will be the 6x2TB as RAIDZ1 or RAIZ2 for data storage. I probably need 1TB as iSCSI targets for the Oracle database. Rest of it will be data storage for Windows and backup.
Will there be a performance problem with the RAIDZ pool for my database because it does a lot of random IOs, do I need to add another SSD for L2ARC and ZIL?
I plan to put ESXi and OI on a SATA 100GB drive from my old computer, will it be ok?
Thanks in advance.
Case: Fractal Design Define R4
CPU: XEON E3-1245V2
Motherboard: Supermicro X9SAE-V-O
Memory: Hynix DDR3-1600 4x8GB ECC
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB x2
Hard drive: Seagate Constellation ES 2TB x2 (will purchase 3 or 4 more 2TB Sata drives)
PSU:SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W ATX12V
HBA: IBM M1015
I will run about 6-7 VMs on this ESXi host,
1. a Win7 machine for web browsing, MS office, photo processing
2. a Win7 HTPC media server to store ripped bluerays, music, etc. about 2-3 TB. I am planning to add a cable tuner later to make it a Window Media Center server, and use Xbox or Ceton echo to replace my cable boxes.
3. a Windows 2012 server to play around.
4. 2-3 Linux VMs to install Oracle RAC database and Oracle Application servers.
5. an OI/napp-it SAN/NAS server for storage.
Since I am all new to ESX and zfs, I would like to have some advices from experts here on how to configure the drives to have the balance between performance and reliability.
This is what I am planning to,
Have two ZFS pools, one VM pool of the two Samsung SSDs in mirror 1 for all the VMs and Oracle's redo logs and temp tablespace. I figure 256GB should be big enough for all the OS installs? The other pool will be the 6x2TB as RAIDZ1 or RAIZ2 for data storage. I probably need 1TB as iSCSI targets for the Oracle database. Rest of it will be data storage for Windows and backup.
Will there be a performance problem with the RAIDZ pool for my database because it does a lot of random IOs, do I need to add another SSD for L2ARC and ZIL?
I plan to put ESXi and OI on a SATA 100GB drive from my old computer, will it be ok?
Thanks in advance.