Made some changes to the lab. One of my X8SIL-F boards had a DIMM slot go bad so I figured it was time to bump that host. It's now:
- X9SCM-iif
- Intel e3-1230v2 CPU (3.3GHz)
- 32GB of RAM
I can tell already it's running cooler than the old X3430 as the fan doesn't spin up nearly as much under heavy load. I'll rev the other two hosts at some point.
Also put an Intel S3700 100GB SSD in each host and am using PernixData's FVP for read/write caching....well, I was. I will again when I get the new bits for vSphere 5.5. Currently running the RC of 5.5.
Put two Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSDs in my Synology DS3611xs using the new SSD Read Caching in DSM 4.3. That's getting me by until I get FVP working again.
And finally... I have two Fusion I/O 785GB ioDrive2 PCIe cards on the way. Does everyone's home lab do like 250K IOPS? Hah....
- X9SCM-iif
- Intel e3-1230v2 CPU (3.3GHz)
- 32GB of RAM
I can tell already it's running cooler than the old X3430 as the fan doesn't spin up nearly as much under heavy load. I'll rev the other two hosts at some point.
Also put an Intel S3700 100GB SSD in each host and am using PernixData's FVP for read/write caching....well, I was. I will again when I get the new bits for vSphere 5.5. Currently running the RC of 5.5.
Put two Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSDs in my Synology DS3611xs using the new SSD Read Caching in DSM 4.3. That's getting me by until I get FVP working again.
And finally... I have two Fusion I/O 785GB ioDrive2 PCIe cards on the way. Does everyone's home lab do like 250K IOPS? Hah....