Hello.
We didn't have the budget to buy SW Appliance, so our only option is to build it by our self hyper-converged appliance.
We have 2 x R510 (2 x X5670, H700 512MB, 64GB RAM, RAW Storage on r10 (HGST 3TB drives), Smart-UPS 1500VA USB & Serial RM 2U 230V) with 5 yearsextended warranty from our local shop.
We would like to buy SW VSAN software with 4TB cluster limitation.
Rest of non clustered storage (because of 4TB limitation) we will use to store cold data, VM's not business critical, VM backups ...
On a clustered part we will keep 5VM (file server, mail server, 3 app servers).
What should we know/buy to keep it working well as a cluster?
NIC with RDAC (Mellanox or Intel) for each node
NIC - Intel 4x1GB for LAN access (2 teamed ports).
Caching - how to chose the best way to cache those data? THNSNJ480PCS3 from Toshiba, or just add more RAM? It's not so IO demanding to write now but when we will virtualize our Oracle we will have to deal with that somehow.
Any suggestion related to it?
Should we buy Windows 2016 or wait for 2019?
Best regards. Pawel
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