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    SAN or Homebrew ZFS Box?

    I'm going to be using some shared storage for 3 x Proxmox boxes, 2xE5-2650 192GB RAM each. I have a Dell Equallogic PS6000E with 16 x 1TB SATA or I can have a homebrew ZFS box with E3-1245v2 32GB RAM 8x2TB SATA and a STEC slog device. Which would you go for?
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    Dell Equallogic Controller Question

    Is it possible to replace the controllers in a PS4000 with the Type 7 from PS6000 series?
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    Equallogic PS6000E PS4000E questions

    I have just bought a PS6000E which has 16x1TB drives in it, three of which are unapproved. I also have a PS4000E chassis on the way. Could anybody tell me please, which unapproved drives have you managed to get running in these things. The approved drives appear to be Seagate Constellation...
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    NAPP-IT and floating IP

    I'm looking to do something like UCARP on FreeBSD or Linux, does anyone have any experience of floating IP on omnios, somwhere I can find any documentation etc. TIA Daz
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    NAPP-IT and Replication Question

    I currently have a setup, ZFS but not using Napp-IT made up of the following. 2U chassis with 8 hotswap bays, i3 processor with 32GB ECC RAM, 8x1TB Seagate spinners. 2x256GB Intel SSDs as L2ARC. The box is the storage for a small ESXi setup. The ESXi and the storage box are connected...
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    Mini-ITX Board That Supports VT-D

    Didn't want to hijack another thread but the Gigabyte GA-Z77N-WIFI Mini-ITX is a great board for ESXi and supports vt-d as well as having dual LAN plus one PCIe 3 slot. Anyone got any others?
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    Getting the most out of an N40L

    I have a couple of N40L microservers that I want to utilize as shared storage to serve up some virtual machines to esxi. I've currently got ZFS running with four 256GB Samsung 840 Pros in two mirrors. I've just ordered 16GB RAM to max the memory out, it currently has 6GB in it. I'm...
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