one external that connects to a SM JBOD 16bay case and the other an internal that connects to dell r730 8 bay sas3 cage i added to the dell r720. I also keep my dell r720 server which had the memory recently upgraded to 256 DDR3 1866 Ram.ĭell r720 has 2 lsi 12GB HBA cards. I just got a used dell r730xd with dual e5-2680v3 and 256GB Ram. Complete design flip going from 2 servers running similar specs and having FreeNas store VM to going to using local Raid card for VM storage and giving up some vmotion options. Warning - this ended up longer then i wanted lol. Maybe my new plans help you think about yours I'm currently using dedicated pfsense appliance, and was going to replace with upgraded Intel ATOM but am deciding if I may just go with something from Ubiquti to keep it simple and usable with the Cloud Key Gen2 and POE Switch I have coming.
#Unraid setup full#
This also makes the power requirement for cameras\security MUCH LESS without needing to keep a full E3 with HDD online, and allows me to mix-match and test new hypervisors by keeping it off my storage and not an 'all in one'. NextCloud here if doesn't work so well on FreeNASįor me the importance of keeping them online is cameras, home storage, then whatever else the home all in one does on Proxmox. Add external SSD or scripted auto-archive to FreeNAS If it doesn't work, then off to ProxMox home AIO FreeNAS will be where I first attempt to run something 'home' that must run 24\7
General \ All Purpose storage for home files (family pics, photos, backups etc) I'm on revision 3? or 4? Over the last couple years myself, and I think I'm going to go with this, after a last couple weeks of tinkering and deciding between 'one for all' or split up even more. Your post reminds me of my own "home" adventure of swapping setups, hardware, etc, to get the most fitting iSCSI or NFS to NAS, but it's going to be 1G speeds.Xfinity is only 1G so I'm ok with using the onboard NIC's Primarily hosting OPNsense firewall, Pi-hole, Honeypots, etc.ĭefinitely switching perimeter firewalls every now and again between opensource and Juniper, PaloAlto etc. Mellanox CX3 port 2 directly connected to my workstation at 40G.Mellanox CX3 port 1 connected to EX2300 at 10G.Hosting all sorts of Network and Security based virtual machines, and windows, linux etc. Mellanox CX3 connected to EX2300 at 10GĮVE-NG because it's like working in Visio.
I could possibly host cloud sync, plex, hydra, sabnzbd, sonarr, etc. Hopefully I can get this to saturate 10G and provide VM storage to networked hypervisors
Operating system is unknown, but I would like it to be flexible and fast This is the hardware I have and my rough thoughts right now. Networking is 2 x Juniper EX2300-C switches so I have 4 x 10G SFP's, but 2 of those are used connecting the switches as they are at opposite ends of my house. I will probably switch hypervisors every now and again, but want the storage to be more static My thoughts are to split it up and have separate storage and hypervisors, and I'm trying to work with the hardware I already have while adding relatively inexpensive parts for more speed It then hosts a lot of firewalls, and networking VM's as I have a big lab environment for testing. I currently have an all-in-one type of setup with ESXi hosting everything with HBA's passed through physically to an XPEnology (Synology) NAS storage and jack-of-all trades system that's running lots of dockers with cloud sync, plex, hydra, sabnzbd, sonarr, etc. TLDR - Looking for a fast NAS operating system for storing lots of large virtual machine imagesįreeNAS is probably the answer, but I thought I'd see what people thought first. I'm changing my home lab environment around a little and trying to get a bit more flexibility in my storage and hypervisor setup, and I would love some advice regarding which NAS operating system might be best for my environment.
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