How should i design my server

[t1jnes]

Hi Guys,

I have a question. We recently bought new HPE DL380 GEN 10 servers.

They are specd with
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5218 CPU 16 Cores 2X
384 GB ddr4 ram
6 x 1.92TB Enterprise ssd
2 x 480 GB Enterprise ssd
1 x HPE MR416i-p Raid controlelr
How should we setup the storage. We have the current setup in mind but seek some advice

2 x 480GB ssd setup in hpe bios in raid 1 config and use it as our OS storage
6 x 1.92 TB ssd setup in hpe as JBOD and configure them as ZFS storage to store all our vm`s

Do you guys think this will be an good setup. we basically want to run all our vm`s on this and want to make it as safe as possible so we wont lose any data if a disk breaks.

 

[_gabriel]

6 x 1.92 TB ssd setup in hpe as JBOD and configure them as ZFS storage

Pass disks in HBA mode (available with your high end hw raid controller) is the best way for ZFS.

 

[t1jnes]

Pass disks in HBA mode (available with your high end hw raid controller) is the best way for ZFS.

Hi Gabriel

Thanks for your response i tried putting the Raid controller into HBA mode but whas not able to locate that option i looked under Smart storage administrator but my Raid controller wont even show up there i dont think this raid card has that option

 

[_gabriel]

Doc seems says support mixed RAID & HBA :
https://cdn.competec.ch/documents2/3/1/2/225001213/225001213.pdf
I don't have this hw.
Perhaps HBA only available in CLI.