Planing Home Server Hyper-V and Storage Box

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concomet

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Hello,

I plan to build a home server for System Center 2012 and store my private data. My focus for now is to build a Storage Box and add later 2 Hyper-V Nodes for Private Cloud VMs.

This Storage Box will run Server 2012 R2 and additonally act as Hyper-V single host for some VMs:

Mainboard: Supermicro Mainboard X10SLH-F (2x GbitLAN, IPMI and 6x SATA)
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3 (Low power consumtion)
Case: Fractal Define Mini Tower (fits 6 HDDs)
RAM: 16GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR3-1333 ECC (other recommendations?)
PSU: 450 Watt Seasonic G-Series Modular 80+ (looked for a cheap PSU with cable management, maybe other recommendations?)
SSD: 64GB ADATA Premier Pro (cheap SSD for OS)

I already have some disks:
3x 3TB Seagate Constellation
2x 240GB SSD Intel 520 Series

Because the CPU is shipped Tray I need a quietly CPU cooler, any recommendations?
 
concomet said:
Hello,

I plan to build a home server for System Center 2012 and store my private data. My focus for now is to build a Storage Box and add later 2 Hyper-V Nodes for Private Cloud VMs.

This Storage Box will run Server 2012 R2 and additonally act as Hyper-V single host for some VMs:

Mainboard: Supermicro Mainboard X10SLH-F (2x GbitLAN, IPMI and 6x SATA)
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3 (Low power consumtion)
Case: Fractal Define Mini Tower (fits 6 HDDs)
RAM: 16GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR3-1333 ECC (other recommendations?)
PSU: 450 Watt Seasonic G-Series Modular 80+ (looked for a cheap PSU with cable management, maybe other recommendations?)
SSD: 64GB ADATA Premier Pro (cheap SSD for OS)

I already have some disks:
3x 3TB Seagate Constellation
2x 240GB SSD Intel 520 Series

Because the CPU is shipped Tray I need a quietly CPU cooler, any recommendations?
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Maybe it's my lack of knowledge when it comes to Hyper-V, but I thought it was like a Type 1 hypervisor where you don't / can't run any other roles - just Hypervisor for VMs.

Memory Recommendation: Board looks to take ECC UDIMM .. you did not say what model of Kingston RAM so you need to make sure it's ECC Un-buffered DIMMs.
(some boards can take either ECC/non-ECC but SuperMicro would normally make this clear - I did not see "non-ECC" mentioned).

As far as the rest of the components ..... list model numbers so folks know what you are thinking of (exactly) to compare to.

I'd look at separate storage from the host servers .... Catch a PowerEdge T110 II on sale and use it with FreeNAS.
Don't need a lot of power or speed from the components to max out the ~100MB/s network speed on Gb network.
 
HyperV has 2 methods :>

HyperV by itself, ie a type 1 hypervisor
2012R2 (or 2008/2008R2) OS with the HyperV role added
I second the idea of a separate storage machine
 
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