HP Proliant Microserver (G1610T) Configuration Options

ebbzuv on 26/02/2016 - 11:34

I recently bought a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T. My plan is to set it up as all-in-one. People were suggesting installing ESXi and on top installing FreeNAS VM by passing through the hard drives to FreeNAS. Has anyone done this? Would it really provide redundancy? Do you have any other suggestion (other packages or methods)?

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  • Sunny84 on 26/02/2016 - 12:26
    +1

    I put a Xeon and a IBM 1115 raid card in my Gen8 Microserver for directpath vt-d and got the following:

    1. Win 8.1 for Plex, DVR and downloads running on a SSD with direct access

    2. Xpenology for NAS with direct access to 4 hdd in raid 5

    Works well

    • ebbzuv on 26/02/2016 - 12:58

      You are right, hardware RAID is always best, but how about using FreeNAS RAID with direct access.

      • Sunny84 on 26/02/2016 - 14:21

        Xpenology is soft raid

        • ebbzuv on 26/02/2016 - 14:46

          But would it have true redundancy when the drives are passed through ESXi. Sorry I am relatively new to this area.

        • Sunny84 on 26/02/2016 - 16:12

          With DirectPath yes, you can assign the hard drive controller directly to the VM

          DirectPath only works when you have a VT-D CPU which is mostly the Xeon V2 series.

        • ebbzuv on 26/02/2016 - 16:19

          @Sunny84: Thanks. That makes sense.

    • dogboy on 26/02/2016 - 14:28

      Which Xeon chip did you go for? Takes a bit of hunting to find one at a decent price..

      • Sunny84 on 26/02/2016 - 16:10
        +1

        Xeon 1230v2 for approx. 200 of ebay

        • dogboy on 26/02/2016 - 16:13

          Nice, that is pretty reasonable.

  • jeeg on 26/02/2016 - 12:54

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  • ebbzuv on 26/02/2016 - 13:01

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