Recent content by edlin303

I don't know if I understand what you mean. If you mean connections, I have the 2 m1015s plus the onboard 2008, for a total of 6*4 or 24 disks. Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?

Not sure if you mean technically or how well does it work, so I will answer both. Technically, I plugged in the IPMI NIC and it DHCPed. Then I just had to open a browser to that IP, log in, and I get a bunch of options. - I can see sensor readings, which shows temps for a few dozen things...

Just posting an update, I finally have all the hardware, and will be building this as I have time. So far I have most of it in the chassis, and so far even though I love the density I am not sure I love the chassis. It is significantly louder than my Dell R710 and 2950, and can easily be heard...

Sorry, I meant a generic plate. Mine would be for an M1015.

Got my hopes up here. In your searches, do you remember seeing a low-profile option?

I bought some IBM M1015s for $75 each from someone in the FS section. I believe they should pass through fine since they are LSI 2008 cards, though I can't vouch for that until I am done building my system. *Actually, it was from TypeRazor. I haven't gotten them yet, but according to the...

I'll update with OS info shortly. I am going to do an ESXi all-in-one so I can make some use of the server resources for VM purposes too. If that doesn't pan out, I will probably at least make it my primary DB server and run some other stuff from it so I didn't waste the $ building it to a VM...

Correct, mine doesn't have expanders. I wanted to avoid them because several people have said they don't always play well with ZFS. That steered me to the board I chose because it has 2 onboard SAS ports, and 7 slots for more controllers. In your case, if you're doing a physical RAID I think...

Great, I look forward to seeing it. I intend to just pop a label on each one right away, so for locating a disk there will be no question.

I don't know yet, but intend to go the ESXi route myself. The only drawback I am concerned with is if there is any performance hit vs. physical. From all the posts I have seen, people report no noticeable slowdown. The key benefit I see is I can put small lower-priority VMs on the same host then...

Just to confirm, the only reason you suggest against the 2008s is that they use WWN? I just bought some, and if that's the only "problem" I think I prefer the WWN long-term anyway. But if there are other issues I want to be prepared.

Do you mean comparing those three to each other on ESXi, or comparing any of those with ESXi vs. without ESXi?

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I decided to start a new thread based on my ramblings in http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1599279. This will document my build, and any issues I run across. Ironically, after a lot of back and forth on all the parts I found I chose almost the same as this person did last year...