{"id":11981,"date":"2022-09-23T23:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2022-09-23T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:33:49","slug":"finally-slowed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=11981","title":{"rendered":"Finally slowed down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 8 days of trying to prevent data loss and disaster, I finally can sit back and relax and finish building my ESXi host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have enough RAM, but I am adding more, but I am going to move some workloads over this weekend.  This new ESXi host will replace two existing ESXi hosts, a file server, and most applications on an application server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HP-Z840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HP-Z840.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HP-Z840.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HP-Z840-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HP-Z840-768x392.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>My New HP-Z840 ESXi 7 host<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two E5-2630v4 Xeon hosts<\/li><li>128GB of RAM (probably upgrade to 256GB before end of year), can upgrade to 512 without replacing RAM and up to 2TB of RAM if I rip out and replace.<\/li><li>Quadro K620 which will do a PCI pass though for transcoding<\/li><li>NVS510 for Video and secondary encoding if needed<\/li><li>1275W power supply, that was a pleasant surprise<\/li><li>Two 1GB Intel Ethernet ports on the motherboard<\/li><li>Two 10GB SFP+ ports on an expansion card<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Storage deserves its own section<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Has an HP Z Turbo drive which was a huge surprise that is compatible with ESXi 7.<\/li><li>Has a Perc H200E with external mini SAS SFF 8088.  Can support 8 external drives, got a drive cage for that (more pix in the future).  Note that this card is NOT ESXi 7 compatible, I intend to passthrough the card to a VM.<\/li><li>Built in to the motherboard are 6 traditional AHCI SATA ports<\/li><li>Another 8 SAS Ports<\/li><li>Internally I can fit four 3.5&#8243; drives SATA or SAS, they go to the onboard SAS Ports.<\/li><li>Two external drive bays are fitted with 6x drive ICY Dock Tough Armor MB608SP-B for a total of 12 2.5&#8243; drives.<\/li><li>With 12 drives external and 4 drives internal I do not have enough ports, so I added an HP H240 HBA in IT mode.  This is SAS3 which can support 12GB\/s.<\/li><li>The HP Z turbo drive is the main boot drive (no USB flash drives this time), a 512GB SSD is a backup ESXi7 drive, and I also have a 256GB SSD Rocky Linux Drive, and a 128GB SSD Drive for testing.<\/li><li>If you are keeping track that leaves me with 9 2.5&#8243; drives for VMFS data stores, 4 3.5&#8243; drives for VMFS data stores and 8 external (via passthrough on a VM) 3.5&#8243; drives.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having fun, this should last me a couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, also saw a great deal on a small PC, at raspberry prices where they are at today, why not.  It was $60 and can do h.264 encoding on the i3 CPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weight:  314.6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 8 days of trying to prevent data loss and disaster, I finally can sit back and relax and finish building my ESXi host. 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