I've had my 4-node vSAN Cluster setup for almost a year now and I haven't been in love with both the performance and (most importantly) the flexibility it gives me in my home network. So I'm giving strong consideration to re-purposing one of my vSAN nodes as well as all the vSAN disks into a single All-SSD SAN to be used as a shared storage device for either a 2 or 3 node ESXi cluster.
Hardware for this SAN will be as follows:
With regard to Server OS I'm exploring many options including the following:
FreeNAS/NAS4Free (FreeBSD)
Napp-it/Nexenta (Solaris)
OMV/ZoL (Linux)
I will update this thread as this project progresses but if anyone has any other suggestions/experience with some of these OS's with relation to their performance as an ESXi shared datastore (such as NFS/iSCSI performance) I'd love to hear about it.
Current cluster pic before reconfig.
Hardware for this SAN will be as follows:
- SuperMicro X10SDV-2C-7TP4F (Xeon D-1508)
- 16GB DDR4 2133 Registered RAM
- 4 x Hitachi 400GB HUSSL4040ASS600 SAS SSDs (38PB TBW
- 4 x Intel 800GB S3500 SATA SSDs
With regard to Server OS I'm exploring many options including the following:
FreeNAS/NAS4Free (FreeBSD)
Napp-it/Nexenta (Solaris)
OMV/ZoL (Linux)
I will update this thread as this project progresses but if anyone has any other suggestions/experience with some of these OS's with relation to their performance as an ESXi shared datastore (such as NFS/iSCSI performance) I'd love to hear about it.
Current cluster pic before reconfig.