Oh man, its a been awhile since I've been to the HardOCP forums, but this is where it all started, so I start here on my new file server. Back in 2009, I built myself a nice WHS using a Norco 4020. That WHS server kept getting more and more data thrown at it and never really gave me much trouble. Drive would drop from time to time, but thats always going to happen. Eight years later and I now find myself with almost 11TB of data duplicated over all 20 drives the Norco can hold. With this server showing its age, the SATA cards can't see drives over 2TB, and it being 2003....it was time to replace. I got lucky and was able to all ready backup up all the data to a WD NAS while I start over. I will still be using the Norco as my case and HDD back plane.
I've already purchased the following items:
Supermicro X11SSH-F
Intel i3-7100
8GB RAM
LSI 9240-8i
The plan was to be to use the 8 internal SATA ports from the MB and then the LSI card with some SAS connectors to the case for my storage needs. I've already got this up and running with ESXi 6.5 as my OS and a Win2016 VM with a storage space pool but don't have a good feeling on this setup. I've been doing RDM to the Win2016 VM through the CLI to pass all the disks but it just feels off. So, tonight I was about to wipe the setup and put Win2016 core on as my OS, then use disk passthrough to another 2016 VM for my storage space pool, but started reading about Storage Spaces Direct...which made me even more confused on what I should do.
So, what does the Horde recommend for me as a host and file server? I'm fairly proficient in Hyper-V (2012 mostly), decent in VMWare (ESXi 6.0 mostly), and have no preference on either as my host system. For the storage server itself, I like the idea of Storage Spaces, but know there are tons of other options (ZFS, unRAID, etc). Just so much new technology and its hard to know where to start.
I've already purchased the following items:
Supermicro X11SSH-F
Intel i3-7100
8GB RAM
LSI 9240-8i
The plan was to be to use the 8 internal SATA ports from the MB and then the LSI card with some SAS connectors to the case for my storage needs. I've already got this up and running with ESXi 6.5 as my OS and a Win2016 VM with a storage space pool but don't have a good feeling on this setup. I've been doing RDM to the Win2016 VM through the CLI to pass all the disks but it just feels off. So, tonight I was about to wipe the setup and put Win2016 core on as my OS, then use disk passthrough to another 2016 VM for my storage space pool, but started reading about Storage Spaces Direct...which made me even more confused on what I should do.
So, what does the Horde recommend for me as a host and file server? I'm fairly proficient in Hyper-V (2012 mostly), decent in VMWare (ESXi 6.0 mostly), and have no preference on either as my host system. For the storage server itself, I like the idea of Storage Spaces, but know there are tons of other options (ZFS, unRAID, etc). Just so much new technology and its hard to know where to start.