July 6, 201312 yr I have named my build Frankenstein. Now someone has pointed out that yes Frankenstein was the scientist and it should be Frankenstein's Monster but I don't care, it's Frankenstein. My build is an upgrade of my existing server using parts I have purchased new and sourced from various places like the buy and sell of various forums, eBay and a few HD's of work colleagues. I have already done some testing out of my new hardware in a temporary case and I plan to transplant the new hardware in and just (hopefully) boot up, then as it's an ESXi build boot up the vm. Hypervisor at time of building: ESXi 5.1 OS at time of building: 5RC10 CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F-O RAM: Kingston 16G Case: Antec 1200 Forum Purchase Drive Cage(s): Norco SS-500 Power Supply: Corsair HX850 (probably massive overkill but eeehhh he needs the juice) Forum Purchase SATA Expansion Card(s): 3 * IBM ServeRAID M1015 LSI SAS9220-8i Forum Purchase Cables: 1 SATA ESXi Datastore Drive, 6 Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) to 4 SATA Forward Break cables various lengths from various places Fans: All Stock UPS: Cyberpower 850VA might need an upgrade Parity Drive: Hitachi 7K4000 4TB 7200RPM Data Drives: 1 * Hitachi 7K4000 4TB 7200RPM, 5 * WD WD30EZRX 3TB 5400RPM, 1 * Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB 7200RPM, 4 * Hitachi 5K4000 3TB 5400RPM Datastore Drive: Plextor M5s 120GB SSD Cache Drive: WD WD1002FAEX Black 1TB Total Drive Capacity: 34TB Primary Use: Storage Secondary Use: ESXi lab, Virtual Machine testing, Media Management. Likes: What's not to like. I have an easy to manage storage environment that is powerful enough it can be used for other things. Best of all the media management and streaming of said content to the TV's in the house has the big green tick from the wife as she can use it, it's not complicated, works reliably and I don't have to micro manage it. Dislikes: It's loud. As I live in Australia and at times in summer the house inside can get to 35c for days on end and I can't afford to run the aircon all the time. In winter temps are not an issue. I tried to run the Norco SS-500 cages with Multiple different fans both recommended here and others but they just cannot do anything with those high temps. The stock fans at least keep the drive temps when doing a parity check below 45c Add Ons Used: sabNZDB, SickBeard, PLEX, APC UPS, simplefeatures, unMenu Future Plans: Add more disks, looking into running a PVR vm something like mytbuntu for capturing live tv and feeding it into PLEX Boot (peak): TBA Idle (avg): TBA Active (avg): TBA Light use (avg): TBA Pics and build log to come.... maybee
July 6, 201312 yr Why are you using add-ons if you are running ESXi? Agreed! Keep unRAID as vanilla as possible and just build VMs for your app/addon needs. That way if you run into any unRAID issues you can at least say they are not addon related. John
July 7, 201312 yr Author Why are you using add-ons if you are running ESXi? Agreed! Keep unRAID as vanilla as possible and just build VMs for your app/addon needs. That way if you run into any unRAID issues you can at least say they are not addon related. John All the addons I currently use are stable and I have not had an issue with any of them, If you build other vms it just introduces another device/machine that could have problems in my opinion. Keeping unraid alive and ticking and not having to worry about if this box is talking to that box. I do plan on having other stuff like a pvr outside of unraid, but when the plugins that are currently out are so stable and work why would you not use it.
July 7, 201312 yr It's cool, if you're a seasoned admin. Getting some of these things running on a ram based filesystem is cool. I personally like building packages that are installed on boot for customizing the environment for my application. I only worry about static config files that are copied from the flash. Everything else is a data drive. While I do have a couple VM's around, it's mostly for compiling apps for other environments. Slackware for unRAID, CentOS 3.9 for ESX... (cool thing.. I was able to compile bash4.2 and miniperl statically for esx the other day!)
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