New ESX Server Build

[trey_w]

All components for my new build finally arrived.

Hoping to start building it later today after I get the Turkey on the Smoker.

 

[trents]

Is this going to be used for pleasure or business?

Looks like a fair amount of $$ represented in that pile of components.

 

[trey_w]

Is this going to be used for pleasure or business?

Looks like a fair amount of $$ represented in that pile of components.

Mostly business but a little bit of personal use as well. [emoji16]

 

[trey_w]

Finally got everything done and up and running.

Ended up ordering an intel Quad NIC and 2 Samsung 970 NMVe M.2 2TB SSD drives which should be here Monday to finish it off.

This thing is super quiet

 

[trents]

Keep us posted.

 

[maxfly]

the drive rack on the psu is sweet. have fun!

 

[E-Tech]

Nice looking rig! You contemplating a raid 0 for the M.2 drives for a boot volume? If so use the AMD drivers for best performance. Visit AMD support for the latest drivers as ASUS does not keep up.

 

[trey_w]

Got the Intel NIC and M.2 cards installed. Haven’t decided how I’m going use them just yet.

 

[WackyWRZ]

I've been gathering parts to build a new server myself and like the look of this case. So it really only holds 3x 3.5 drives?

 

[trey_w]

I've been gathering parts to build a new server myself and like the look of this case. So it really only holds 3x 3.5 drives?

I don’t have one of the drive holders installed when I took the pic

3 x 3.5
4 x 2.5

 

[Janus67]

Nice looking rig! You contemplating a raid 0 for the M.2 drives for a boot volume? If so use the AMD drivers for best performance. Visit AMD support for the latest drivers as ASUS does not keep up.

I don't see why anyone would RAID0 anything for a server build. In almost all circumstances data is important so a RAID1/mirror setup at minimum would be recommended. That and unless they plan to power down the server constantly the boot times are fairly inconsequential.

 

[trey_w]

I don't see why anyone would RAID0 anything for a server build. In almost all circumstances data is important so a RAID1/mirror setup at minimum would be recommended. That and unless they plan to power down the server constantly the boot times are fairly inconsequential.

I agree but all depends on full setup and what someone cares about. In general you are correct, RAID 0 becomes single point of failure

All my snapshots go to my QNAP which runs RAID 10. I configure my VM’s to use a drive from the QNAP over ISCSI for user data.

 

[E-Tech]

VM's run inherently slow in most cases thus installing them on a fast raid improves performance. Raid 0 not having fault tolerance is a non consequence in running a VM. If it fails just rebuild it. VM's are rarely mission critical platforms and backups are always recommended in any scenario.

So raid 0 has it's purposes when it comes to performance. The OP here clearly has a great understanding of the use of such and as he states user data run in VM's are directed to an NAS using raid 10 is a great choice and a perfectly logical performance minded approach.