Ik heb de vragen op andere forums gesteld in het engels, dus zolang het mag post ik het hier voor het makkelijke ook in het engels.
Greetings,
Currently I am running a consumer pc recently replaced in this (Inter-tech IPC 4U-4129-N) server case.
It has 1x 8tb hdd, 1x 1tb hdd. 1x 248gb boot ssd, 8gb ram and an FX6350. It is as of now baremetal running Windows Server 2019 and it is mostly used for a Minecraft Server and 24/7 Plex.
Now I have gotten an old DL380 G5 from school with one 74gb 10k hdd with probably more of those to come. If not, I'm going to replace it with one 248gb kingston ssd. It has 32gb ram and two Xeon 5160's.
My plan is to use the HP server to run the services like the Minecraft server and Plex. The FXServer is then only going to be used for network storage as the case makes for easy expansion.
Now I need some opinions and help, is this a good setup? If not, should I ditch the HP server or keep both? Something else?
If I'm going to use the HP server, it does not need RAID, I do not find it critical enough for that. I have been installing PROXMOX 4.4 and ESXI 5.5 on it, but I'm currently not satisfied. ESXI only works on 5.5, management/documentation is lackluster and confusing. As far as I know without a working web interface. PROXMOX is working better, but even though I've installed the VIRTIO drivers for everything and configured everything according to best practices. The network is slow with a max of 40 mb/s when I do a speedtest while the baremetal FXServer is getting 500 mb/s, the full speed. So if I can't fix this, PROXMOX is out of the picture. If I am going to use this server, any tips? Just do it baremetal?
Disregarding how I'm going to use the FXServer, I would like to make a raid array with future expansion opportunities and maybe some redundancy. I would want this for the possible speed increase and so I have one volume for all my movies,backups,series etc. So when I have filled up my 8tb drive, I would like to have the possibility of easy expansion. I have an extra 1tb hdd and 2tb hdd, and if I could, I would like to use these as well. But I am under the impression you need hdd's with similar sizes, so most likely more 8tb hdd's, these are shucked from easystores. Can someone elaborate on this? Should I do software raid? Hardware raid?
Need more information? Please ask. Any help is most appreciated.
Greetings,
Currently I am running a consumer pc recently replaced in this (Inter-tech IPC 4U-4129-N) server case.
It has 1x 8tb hdd, 1x 1tb hdd. 1x 248gb boot ssd, 8gb ram and an FX6350. It is as of now baremetal running Windows Server 2019 and it is mostly used for a Minecraft Server and 24/7 Plex.
Now I have gotten an old DL380 G5 from school with one 74gb 10k hdd with probably more of those to come. If not, I'm going to replace it with one 248gb kingston ssd. It has 32gb ram and two Xeon 5160's.
My plan is to use the HP server to run the services like the Minecraft server and Plex. The FXServer is then only going to be used for network storage as the case makes for easy expansion.
Now I need some opinions and help, is this a good setup? If not, should I ditch the HP server or keep both? Something else?
If I'm going to use the HP server, it does not need RAID, I do not find it critical enough for that. I have been installing PROXMOX 4.4 and ESXI 5.5 on it, but I'm currently not satisfied. ESXI only works on 5.5, management/documentation is lackluster and confusing. As far as I know without a working web interface. PROXMOX is working better, but even though I've installed the VIRTIO drivers for everything and configured everything according to best practices. The network is slow with a max of 40 mb/s when I do a speedtest while the baremetal FXServer is getting 500 mb/s, the full speed. So if I can't fix this, PROXMOX is out of the picture. If I am going to use this server, any tips? Just do it baremetal?
Disregarding how I'm going to use the FXServer, I would like to make a raid array with future expansion opportunities and maybe some redundancy. I would want this for the possible speed increase and so I have one volume for all my movies,backups,series etc. So when I have filled up my 8tb drive, I would like to have the possibility of easy expansion. I have an extra 1tb hdd and 2tb hdd, and if I could, I would like to use these as well. But I am under the impression you need hdd's with similar sizes, so most likely more 8tb hdd's, these are shucked from easystores. Can someone elaborate on this? Should I do software raid? Hardware raid?
Need more information? Please ask. Any help is most appreciated.