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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    Just wanted to let you know that I completed my Xeon D vSAN cluster build. Here's a pic of the finished product and a full post about it here.
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    Finished wiring my home server rack [PICS]

    I'll be labeling each cable as well with the cable tie labels but the color coding just helps me remember different groupings.
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    Finished wiring my home server rack [PICS]

    So while I'm waiting on the final motherboard for my new home vSAN cluster (arriving tonight) I was able to spend some time doing punch downs and finishing the wire management of my new rack. Green = IPMI Blue = Server 1Gb NICs (2 per server) Orange = Power management (UPS and PDU)...
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    In terms of replacing the stock SM fans, it really depends on two things. What you are cooling in the chassis and how big the chassis is. You can't really replace the fans in a 1U or 2U chassis because you need high rpm fans to be able to suck and push a lot of air through a tight space. In a...
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    I'm not going to sit here and tell you that iStarUSA components are higher quality then SuperMicro because that's jut not true. Would I use iStarUSA cases in an enterprise environement? No. AndiIf you have the space for full depth chassis' there are tons of good used SuperMicro cases you can...
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    With mini-redundant PSU's like this one there is only one 24-pin MoBo PSU connection that both PSU's use so even if one dies the power to the board does not. I realize the wording of my last post may have confused you as I mentioned plugging "both" into the backplane. Poor choice of words on...
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    I've used iStarUSA chassis' in the past and I like them a lot. The main reason I like them is they are one of the only companies that offer decent hot swap chassis' that aren't full depth (25-32"). I have limited space so I needed a good chassis that would store all my drives put wasn't more...
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    True for name brand servers but with the newer low power CPUs you can build some very quiet white box rack mount servers.
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    I got my new server rack in yesterday. Still waiting on some other parts next week but I should have things up and running in a few weeks. Here is my Xeon D build log along with pics for anyone interested in doing something similiar.
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    Ahhh I see. Well I'll have my build done probably by the end of next month so I guess I'll post my results. I plan to make a build log (on a different forum) when I get all my hardware in so I'll let you know when that happens. You don't even wanna know how much money I'm spending haha.
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    YANB (Yet Another NAS Build) - this thread is not like the others, I hope!

    Where do you stand with this project destrekor? I'm in the process of specing out a new setup (probably a vSAN cluster based on the Xeon D platform) and just wondered if you've purchased/configured any of your setup yet?
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    Remote Administration

    Try Dameware, really nice program.
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    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Thanks for letting me know! I will keep an eye on that as for now I'll be sticking with Windows and my hardware RAID10 setup. Since I'm sticking with Windows it should make it easier to transition to FlexRAID should I ever decide to go that route.
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    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Believe me if I went software RAID ZFS sounds like the way I want to go because of exactly the kinds of protection you are alluded to. The problem is I don't have ECC RAM for any of my systems (nor will I be getting any because all 3 of my boxes (PC, VM Server, and NAS box) are maxed out with...
  15. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Looks like I'm just going to be adding a second RAID10 array to the Perc 6i. Don't want to spend the money and I've already got an array set up so I think I'd rather spend my time doing the things I bought my new VM server for instead of learning a new software RAID solution right now...
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    If you had my setup, what would you change/upgrade?

    ^This. If your CPU is at stock, OCing it to 4.5Ghz+ and getting a new video card would be a nice upgrade.
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    Best way to configure this setup - VM & fileserver (hardware in hand)

    Haha gotcha. Well the good thing is that I have licensing for 2 ESXi 5.1 servers, vCenter, and VMware Workstation 9 so I should be able to pull it off ;).
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    Best way to configure this setup - VM & fileserver (hardware in hand)

    You need to nest ESXi within itself to use vCenter? I thought you just needed two ESXi servers in total.
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    Best way to configure this setup - VM & fileserver (hardware in hand)

    Well that's partly why I'm considering running everything through VMware Workstation 9 since I can nest 2 ESXi servers from within it.
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    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Yes I have a 2nd system that I plan to run ESXi on. What I have in hand between the two planned systems is the following: Box #1 (current fileserver/planned NAS): Intel Q6600 CPU DFI Blood Iron P35 LGA775 board 8GB DDR2-667 RAM 160GB SATA OS Drive RAID10 Array (4x2TB drives) -...
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    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Yea I have some deciding to do. And I'm definitely aware that a RAID setup is not a backup. That is why I want to take 2 of the 2TB drives and put them in their own mirrored array just for backups. I do like the idea of FlexRAID or UnRAID not being striped though because that way if I lose...
  22. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Thank you for that explanation, I understand now. So could I not just buy a PCIe Sata card to connect my drives and just sell my Perc 6i? I have 4 onboard Sata ports so I'd only need 4 more if I'm using something like FreeNAS or UnRAID since they can be installed on a USB stick.
  23. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    I didn't just purchase this hardware, I've had it. I purchased new hardware for a different purpose and I'm left with these parts to make a NAS as I don't currently have one. I was just using these parts as a Windows fileserver with RAID10 volumes on my Perc 6i controller. Are you saying that...
  24. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Good discussion going on in here :). First off sub.mesa, I'm not buying any additional hardware. I've already dropped over a grand on a new VM server so buying anything else is out of the question at this point as I've stated earlier in this thread. Secondly, I plan on using the hardware RAID...
  25. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Plex plugin huh? That means I'd have to run my Plex Media Server on the same box as my drives though right? I kind of bought the 3770K so I could OC it to be sure I was getting the best performance when transcoding. There are times when 4-5 people are streaming videos at the same time and a...
  26. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    First off smitbret, I just want to say...thank you! Not only for being active in this thread but especially for that last post because it was EXTREMELY helpful. Great explanation and that clears up a lot of questions I had about these different software RAID solutions. I think from what...
  27. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Right, that is why I bought a second set of drives to use for backups of my current RAID10 (4x2TB drives) array but since I'm doing a lot of reconfiguration of my home network it made me take step back and analyze exactly how I'm doing things. That's why Ideally I'll probably wind up using 2...
  28. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    I have licenses for WS 2008 R2 and WS 2012 so could I run RAIDz2 or FlexRAID on either of those? If those software RAID solutions don't use striping, where does the performance boost come from since I'm assuming there'd be some kind of mirroring going on for redundancy? I know you...
  29. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    I get that ZFS will beat hardware RAID in regards to speed. However Priority #1 is redundancy for me. My priorities for my RAID setup is as follows: 1. Redundancy (data integrity is a premium, can't lose it) 2. Speed (mainly read speeds for serving up media) 3. Space (I'd like to be...
  30. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    My board only supports 8GB of RAM unfortunately so I'm maxed out. So since I already have the Perc 6i with the 2 SAS-to-4xSATA cables, would it make sense to try and run my controller in single drive mode to just connect all my drives or do I not have enough memory to make ZFS (or another...
  31. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    Wow that's a lot to digest haha. Others had recommended using the Perc 6i as it was a fairly inexpensive (I paid $70 for it I don't know where you see it for $20) hardware RAID controller. I had considered running ZFS if I could get the drives into single mode however since I don't have ECC...
  32. J

    Configure this storage hardware with the following needs...

    I've got the following components to use for a dedicated NAS box. I will need the data on this NAS to be accessed by multiple Virtual Machines (one that will be serving up media files stored on this box constantly). Components: Intel Q6600 CPU DFI Blood Iron LGA 775 board 8GB DDR2-667 RAM...
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    Best way to configure this setup - VM & fileserver (hardware in hand)

    Responses in bold.
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    Best CPU for VM's & Video?

    What's so odd about it? First off I have technet for the OS's I'll be using for the testing aspect (so that gives me 2 keys for WS 2008, 2012, Win7, Win 8, Office, etc.). Secondly I already own VMware workstation 9 and I can get my hands on ESXi 5.1 so pricing is not really a concern at this...
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    Best way to configure this setup - VM & fileserver (hardware in hand)

    I have been going back and forth as to which route to go in terms of just putting ESXi on the server and going from there or putting Win7 on and using VMware workstation. I'm leaning towards putting ESXi on because I can always nest another ESXi server (and Hyper-V for that matter) within my...
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    Best CPU for VM's & Video?

    This is a testing environment for the most part but I will have one VM (Plex) that is in production. That server serves 5+ clients at a time (locally and over the internet). I will need the ability to migrate that VM from my VM server to VMware workstation on my main PC in the event I need to...
  37. J

    Is it supposed to be this hard?

    That should not happen to the heatspreader at all. Have you inspected the bracket itself to see if it's possibly concave? Something is wrong there.
  38. J

    Need suggestions on air compressor to clean out dust

    I second the ED500. I have one and it's fantastic. Couldn't imagine using anything less from the moment I got it.
  39. J

    Best CPU for VM's & Video?

    I've been reading up on it and video is not something I'll be doing at all on my VM's so that's not a concern. I was thinking more along the lines of controlling my physical NIC but from what I see, the benefits aren't going to help me that mcuh for what I'm doing PLUS doing so disables the...
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    Best CPU for VM's & Video?

    I did but I can't act like price doesn't matter AT ALL. $230(3770k) vs. $500(3930k) is a big difference.
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