Hi All,
Looking to build out a SAN for a VMWare infrastructure, along with potentially offering SANs to our customers. I got some quotes from Sun vendors and they have ridiculous prices per disk ($550 for a 1TB SATA disk for example). So I'm looking to build this out myself. Can you guys recommend any adjustments to these builds? I checked the HCL and other sites online and I believe each part should be compatible, please let me know if any of these won't work or if there are better/more compatible parts. Case: Supermicro SuperChassis 846E2-R900B (QTY 1) Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X7DCL-I Dual LGA 771 (QTY 1) CPU: Intel Xeon E5405 Hapertown 2.0GHz LGA 771 80W Quad Core (QTY 1) RAM: Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM ECC Fully Buffered (QTY 1) Boot Drives: Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB (QTY 2) HBA Controller: LSI SAS3442E-R x8 PCI Express x4 internal SFF-8484, x4 external (QTY 2) Then a combination of SATA or SAS drives, depending on whether this will be used at an off-site location to replicate data (ZFS Send/Receive), or onsite as a SAN. Performance Drives: Fujitsu MBA3300RC 300GB 15000 RPM SAS Storage Drives: Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache Planning on using the two LSI controllers in a multipath fashion; the case has two ports for multipathing, as I understand it. I can build this system without the performance or storage drives for around $2,700. The Performance drives are $300 and the storage drives $160. This case will hold up to 24 drives, have another case that will hold 16. Thanks, Ryan
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