Hello,
I know that there have been similiar threads here. I have searched the forum, but could not find a specific answer that would be helpful for me.
I do have a Microserver Gen8 with a following parts:
Celeron CPU (which will be upgraded to 1220 or 1230, if a can get one),
8GBs ECC ram,
2 x Crucial M4 256GB drives,
1 x Seagate Constellation ES 2TB drive,
1 x Seagate Constellation CS 2TB drive,
SD 8GB.
I do not have an ODD, so I can fit there another SSD, if required.
I want to create an ESXi 6 home lab server that will also handle home NAS using one of the VMs. Things I am planning to do might be an overkill for my needs, but I also want to learn in the process.
Looking at the parts I have, how should I use my drives to get best performance and reliability? Is having so few drives not worth playing with ZFS? Most simple solution would be 2 x RAID1 volumes from 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs I have. SSDs for VMs datastore and HDDs connected to a VM with Xpenology/other NAS platform, right?
But if the sharing back the storage to the hypervisor is considered, how should I setup that? Let us assume I can add another SSD to the system using ODD sata port.
I know that there have been similiar threads here. I have searched the forum, but could not find a specific answer that would be helpful for me.
I do have a Microserver Gen8 with a following parts:
Celeron CPU (which will be upgraded to 1220 or 1230, if a can get one),
8GBs ECC ram,
2 x Crucial M4 256GB drives,
1 x Seagate Constellation ES 2TB drive,
1 x Seagate Constellation CS 2TB drive,
SD 8GB.
I do not have an ODD, so I can fit there another SSD, if required.
I want to create an ESXi 6 home lab server that will also handle home NAS using one of the VMs. Things I am planning to do might be an overkill for my needs, but I also want to learn in the process.
Looking at the parts I have, how should I use my drives to get best performance and reliability? Is having so few drives not worth playing with ZFS? Most simple solution would be 2 x RAID1 volumes from 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs I have. SSDs for VMs datastore and HDDs connected to a VM with Xpenology/other NAS platform, right?
But if the sharing back the storage to the hypervisor is considered, how should I setup that? Let us assume I can add another SSD to the system using ODD sata port.