PVE Cluster on UCS C220-M8S Enough?

tarnerhost

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Question folks- I am building a simple PVE cluster with 2 UCSC-C220-M8S machines and dedicated Qdevice. This is to host a handful of backend VM's including one primary and backup ISE boxes on a 2 Nexus access switches attached to a vpc L3 core. ISE aside, no production apps so to speak... It's a very basic simple network. Does UCS c220 out of the box have enough hardware?


The vics would be dedicated to a active passive linux bond and a couple HA sync segments. The handful of vm's would boot off a NetAPP NFS cluster for offload. All vlans would be redundantly attached to 2 TOR switches. The CIMC's would be standalone running Raid 1 for cluster writes. What else would we need, in the config? Thanks in advance. We are a very simple lot!

Cisco UCS Servers - Two C220-M8S with 24X7X4 Hour Smartnet
4 UCS-M2-240G-D 240GB M.2 SATA Micron G2 SSD
2 UCSC-M-V5Q50GV2-D Cisco VIC 15427 4x 10/25/50G mLOM C-Series w/Secure Boot
2 UCS-M2-HWRAID2 Cisco Boot optimized M.2 Raid controller for SATA drives
There is a extra OOB TOR switch