Dell H710 / Best Storage Setup

[nateynate]

Inherited an pretty nice server that I wish to use for VMs.

• Dell PowerEdge R720 8B Server

• 2x E5-2620 2.0GHz 12-Cores Total

• 96GB DDR3

• 8x 1TB 7.2K 2.5" HDD

• Perc H710 Mini 512MB

I know this controller doesn't do "IT" mode or JBOD. This sort of puts me in a conundrum deciding what is the best storage layout.

Should I do the RAID0 trick for every disk, then let ProxMox do what it wants for storage? Then it can do ZFS. I know I won't be able to hot swap any disks to replace.

Should I do (2) disks HW RAID1 mirror for ProxMox, the RAID0 for all the other disks for VM storage?

I need to balance protection with disk speed. I'll be running a combination of Linux and Windows VMs.

Any advice appreciated.

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[wolfgang]

Hi,

Raid 10 with Thin-LVM is the best what you can do with this controller.

ZFS will not work with this controller.

 

[nateynate]

Hi,

Raid 10 with Thin-LVM is the best what you can do with this controller.

ZFS will not work with this controller.

Thanks, this is what I was leaning towards:

(2) disks in HW RAID1 for the OS / iso storage, leaving some free space for LVM

(6) disks in HW RAID 10 for the LVMThin VM storage.

Anything wrong with that?

 

[wolfgang]

This is a good and solid setup.