Current Lab configuration
vSphere 6.7 P1
vSAN All flash FTT=1 Raid 3+1
VRA 7.6
vROPs 7.5
vRLI 4.5
NSX 6.4.6
VLC 3.9.1
Total of 6 VMware Hosts
Supermicro X9DR3-F (Ebay for $200 each)
Supermicro 2U Chassis, 8 hot-swap 3.5"
128GB RAM each ($160)
Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L 8C @ 1.80GHz ($140)
Dell H310 LSI 2008 HBA (flashed to IT mode and Q-depth 600) ($40)
Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 Dual port 10Gb NIC ($40)
WD Raptor 300GB - Boot Drive
Misc Cables ($40)
Supermicro X9DRI-F+ (Ebay for $160 each)
Supermicro 2U Chassis, 8 drive hot-swap 3.5"
128GB RAM each ($160)
Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v2 10C @ 1.70GHz ($140)
Dell H310 LSI 2008 HBA (flashed to IT mode and Q-depth 600) ($40)
Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 Dual port 10Gb NIC ($40)
WD Raptor 300GB - Boot Drive
Misc Cables ($40)
3 hosts based off each design.
3x E5-2650L based hosts = $1,650
3x E5-2650L v2 based hosts = $1,530
vSAN Storage
Cache Tier
Intel SSDSC2BX40 400GB (5)
Samsung NVMe 960 (1)
Capacity Tier
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB (16)
Intel SSDSC2BX40 400GB (3)
Crucial CT240M50 250B (6)
Crucial CT480M50 480GB (1)
M4-CT256M4SSD2 250GB (1)
OCZ-Agility3 250GB (2)
Storage SAN / NAS
FreeNAS - 69.6TB
X8DTH-6F - ($400)
Supermicro 4U Chassis, 36 drive hot-swap 3.5"
Dual Intel Xeon L5630L 4C 2.13GHz ($50)
48GB RAM ($75)
Boot Drive
10K SAS 500GB
Disk Group 2 - RAIDZ 6 - 18.1TB
10x various 2TB 7K RPM disks
Disk Group 1 - RAIDZ 6 - 19TB
7x various 3TB 7K RPM disks
ARC Cache 40GB
Disk Group 3 - RAIDZ 6 - 32.5TB
9x various 4TB 7K RPM disks
ARC Cache 60GB
Networking
2x IBM G8124-E - 24 port 10Gb SFP+ ($850)
4x SFP+ 1Gb GBICs ($80)
Cisco SG300-28 ($528)
Cisco SG200-26P ($250)
