So here's my plan.
I want to buy a DELL R720XD with 2 Xeon E5-2650s and 128GB of RAM + a separate LSI 2308 HBA.
Since this machine is very powerful and in some sense could be a little underwhelmed with the only workload being a NAS/Database Server, I would love to use the extra CPU power for other servers I'd like running 24/7.
I am running a 2 node cluster using Proxmox (honestly just for the ease of management, nothing HA) that is serving my main gaming rig with GPU passthrough and some...
State of virtualizing FreeNAS and using bhyve
I want to buy a DELL R720XD with 2 Xeon E5-2650s and 128GB of RAM + a separate LSI 2308 HBA.
Since this machine is very powerful and in some sense could be a little underwhelmed with the only workload being a NAS/Database Server, I would love to use the extra CPU power for other servers I'd like running 24/7.
I am running a 2 node cluster using Proxmox (honestly just for the ease of management, nothing HA) that is serving my main gaming rig with GPU passthrough and some...
State of virtualizing FreeNAS and using bhyve