# [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Guenther Alka alka at hfg-gmuend.de
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    Am 02.06.2014 09:38, schrieb Jim Klimov:
    > Hello friends, and sorry for cross-posting to different audiences like this,
    >
    > ..
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    > The box should be a reliable rackable server with remote management, substantial ECC RAM for efficient ZFS and VM needs (128-256gb likely, possibly more), CPUs with all those VT-* bits needed for illumos-kvm and a massive amount of cores (some large-scale OS rebuilds from source are likely a frequent task), and enough disk bays for rpool (hdd or ssd), ssd-based zil and l2arc devices (that's already half a dozen bays), possibly an ssd-based scratch area (raid0 or raid1, this depends), as well as several TB of HDD storage. Later expansions should be possible with JBODs.
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    > ..
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    > PS: how do you go about backing up such a thing? Would some N54L's suffice to receive zfs-send's of select datasets? :)

    I have build and use many AIO systems with ESXi and a virtualized OmniOS
    SAN for NFS/SMB/iSCSI.
    (Use NFS for shared storage on ESXi).

     From my view, use SuperMicro Socket 2011 mainboards, LSI HBA likes a
    9207 and Intel nics.
    The Series -F mainboards come with IPMI

     From a cost view, I prefer the X9SRH-7TF as it comes with a LSI HBA and
    10 Gbe
    http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRH-7TF.cfm

    Add a case without expander like (buy some more HBAs like LSI 9207 or
    IBM 1015)
    http://www.supermicro.nl/products/chassis/2U/216/SC216A-R900LP.cfm

    Use SSD only pools then for VMs (use enterprise SSDs like Intel 3700 or
    overprovision cheaper ones manually)
    The Intel 3700 is also a perfect ZIL for slower disks in a pool.

    The N54 is ok for backups

    some of my howto`s
    http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-in-one.pdf
    http://www.napp-it.org/doc/manuals/flash_x9srh-7tf_it.pdf

    and
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op
    http://www.hdat2.com/files/cookbook_v11.pdf

    Gea

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