I'm looking to purchase a 12-bay Dell R720XD Server with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630 2.30GHz - 6 Core processors & 16GB RAM. it includes a H710.
This system will primarily be my iSCSI data store for my VMware Cluster test lab.
I want speeds around 2000 read/write or higher if possible.
I plan on having:
8-10 drive sata SSD raid 0 array for my data store (may go with a raid 10)
2 drive raid 1 (backup target for my other xpenology system in case of catastrophic failure on that one)
My Question(s):
1. Has anyone gotten this system to work without major issues?
2. Can I use the h710 or should I look into an adaptec 1000-8i (or 2)
3. is there another card that will achieve the speeds I'm looking for? - Ive currently got an LSI card in my other machine but I do not like how the drive ordering doesn't function properly.
4. Are these speeds possible on this machine? Synology has the new high end flash storage servers I hope to mimic that with this system.