stick to raid 1+0 though in case of disk failure, the rebuild would be quicker and needs to read from fewer disks to do so, which means less performance impact on other virtual systems. I really wished my sun X2200 could do passthrough because it has 4 lan ports, would have been nice to give direct access to lan ports for the VM's but oh well.įor your case, if you want to run esxi, without passthrough, it's may not be worth using this system as a file server, I would run a raid 1+0 array and use it for VM's and smaller applications.I just re-read your post and noticed you said 24, if you plan on filling those, you could easily run large virtual disks and have a file server in there. I have two servers running ESXi and only one can do passthrough, and its a dual s1366 supermicro board. I don't think you can pass-through add-in cards on that system either. I dont want to buy this card as i already have a raid card and a sas expander, my wife will make me sleep in the basement if she find out this will work. But take note, customized oem.tgz is needed for this card. You maybe able to passthrough on this card. If esxi,ģWare 9550SX(U)-8LP is the only PCIX that is being supported based on the unofficial esxi hcl. It depends on which virtualization sw your using. I want to probe myself wrong because i bought m1015 last month and i just picked-up mine too today.:clap: and start the testing. Thus, i concluded, without UIO pcie passthrough will not be possible. Here it shows no UIO feature on h8dme-2 mobo. I ended up reading the site below, tabling supermicro's amd mobo. This is the time i asked myself.what the heck is UIO on pci-e slot of supermicro mobo. And on the compatible mobo section in each card's specification, it doesn't mention anything about h8dme-2. Supermicro | Products | Supermicro Storage Chassis SolutionsĪll are implying themselves as UIO cards except for the last 2 cards. I look at all available raid/hba card from supermicro on this page: It is based on my research/ reading alone.
Areca ARC-1220ML for my existing 12x2TB RAID6 array that I want to move into this server.Ģ) Will a single Opteron 2212 be sufficient for transcoding and also 1080p MKV playback? I expect it to be more than enough for 2-3 simultaneous Plex clients, especially if I upgrade to 2P 6 core.ģ) I haven't really run any virtualization stuff besides VMWare Player back when I used to Fold a lot. 3 x Supermicro AOC-SAT-MV8 PCI-X cards that came with the Supermicro server
I'm sure it will be more than enough if I upgrade to dual 6 core CPUs, but the overkill in me wants to make it at least a Skulltrail setup but then I'd be spending enough to buy a second one of these servers.ġ) Storage - do people still do hardware RAID, or has everyone moved onto software RAID-like solutions such as Unraid and ZFS? My hardware includes: Planning on using it for the following (listed in order of priority): It came with a Supermicro H8DME-2 board, a single Opteron 2212, and 8GB ECC RAM.Īre these still decent performers? I know people used to use it for 2P folding but not sure how it stacks up now. I finally got my hands on a nice server grade setup mainly for the 24 bay Supermicro chassis from TAM Solutions.