Hello all, I am building a 2 node cluster for a client. I want to know whats the best way to set this all up.
Here is what I have now:
2x Dell PE R620 Dual 2.6GHz 8C E5-2650v2 192GB RAM
each server will get 2x 960GB Intel SSD drives
each server will also get 6x 1.8TB SAS drives
each server has 4port onboard 1gig nic card as well so I can use 2 posts for Virtual San and the other 2 ports for user connectivity.
I want to setup the 2x ssd with Raid1 and the 6x SAS with Raid6 and 1 hot spare
this will give me about 900GB SSD and about 9TB of SAS per server
we have about 2TB of exchange server data currently and about 1TB of file server data like user shares and so on
We use veeam to backup everything currently to a synology device
running vmware 5.5 with latest patches and also running vmware horizon view 5.3.6 for about 20 users.
So my question is, I want to setup the StarWind Virtual SAN Free, but should I set it up as a Log-Structured File System or FLAT. I would like to take advantage of inline compression+dedupe. Also since I have alot of available RAM in the 2 servers and also SSD can I setup both L1 and L2 caches as well as LSFS w/dedupe? Pros? Cons?
How will you set this up? Thank you,
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