04-26-2023, 01:00 PM
Looking to replace current SAN infrastructure (based on Dell R720xD which uses Fusion-io 3.4TB PCIe Gen 2x8 card and 4 SSDs, and 5 x 1TB SATA HDD )
Used to as ISCSI target for Microsoft Hyper-V cluster running 15 VMs of various workloads, mostly no much.
CIFS Storage for all users and other data
Raid 5 ( 1TB disks) for backups of all the above
Nodes and R720 have dual 10GBe with iWarp RDMA over Chelsio NICs
Main drivers are:
better IOPS (thinking M2 NVME), but equally important is to lower the power usage!
Kit is old now, 12 years
Prefer buying a solution like QNAP, but if only way to make affordable is to do DIY, then will
Apart from which hw to purchase, i could do with recommendations on disk layouts to support the two distinct workloads types. i.e. number of each disk type and RAID levels
Many thanks
Used to as ISCSI target for Microsoft Hyper-V cluster running 15 VMs of various workloads, mostly no much.
CIFS Storage for all users and other data
Raid 5 ( 1TB disks) for backups of all the above
Nodes and R720 have dual 10GBe with iWarp RDMA over Chelsio NICs
Main drivers are:
better IOPS (thinking M2 NVME), but equally important is to lower the power usage!
Kit is old now, 12 years
Prefer buying a solution like QNAP, but if only way to make affordable is to do DIY, then will
Apart from which hw to purchase, i could do with recommendations on disk layouts to support the two distinct workloads types. i.e. number of each disk type and RAID levels
Many thanks