tcs2tx Posted March 19, 2016 #1 Posted March 19, 2016 (edited) I posted my setup in the hardware thread, but am posting as its own thread for those people who are considering different build configurations. I have run XPEnology on a number of different setups (ESXi and bare metal). This is my current setup with 12 hot swap disks: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 - enumerated drives 1-6 - drives 1-4 - 4 hot swap bays - drive 5 - SSD for cache using optical drive connectors and space - drive 6 - empty and I believe unusable (only 5 connectors on motherboard) - CPU upgraded to Xeon E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz - 16 GB ECC RAM (2 x 8 GB 1333 MHz @ 1.5 V) - HighPoint Rocket 2722 External 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s Non-RAID Controller - Integrated Remote Console (same as IPMI on Supermicro) - Link aggregation using 2x Gigabit Sans Digital ST-SAN-TR8X+ Digital TowerRAID - 8 hot swap bays (enumerated drives 7-14) - connected to HighPoint Card using 2x Mini SAS 26-Pin SFF-8088 Male to Mini SAS 26-Pin SFF-8088 Cables Summary - 12 hot swap bays (with drive numbering matching slots), SSD cache, small, quiet, powerful, remote access and link aggregation. Synology DS1815+ and Backup XPEnology (HP Gen8 Microserver and ST-SAN-TR8X+) Doors Open showing 4 bays of HP and 8 bays of ST-SAN-TR8X+ Top view inside HP with SSD connected in optical drive bay Left view inside HP showing (1) USB key in MB slot, (2) red SATA cable in MB running up to SSD in optical drive bay, (3) HighPoint controller, and (4) SFF-8088 cables connecting to HighPoint controller Right view inside HP showing 2x 8GB ECC RAM Back view of HP showing (1) SFF-8088 cables, (2) dual GB lan in link aggregation, and (3) IPMI (aka HP iLO) Back view of ST-SAN-TR8X+ showing SFF-8088 cables Edited March 19, 2016 by Guest
jiaxinxi7 Posted March 19, 2016 #2 Posted March 19, 2016 This is awesome setup. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
tcs2tx Posted March 19, 2016 Author #3 Posted March 19, 2016 Thanks. I like it a lot. I've gone through numerous cases, motherboards and controller cards before arriving at this setup. I hope my numerous trials help someone else. I will also revise the original post to add that the hard drives enumerate the same as their respective slots - HP (drives 1-5) and the external case (drives 6-13). Note - For the HP, the four hard drives are hot-swap with the SSD being internal.
vejta66 Posted March 19, 2016 #4 Posted March 19, 2016 Awesome!!! One question: how did you make microserver bays hot swap?
rkoperdak Posted March 19, 2016 #5 Posted March 19, 2016 Hi,could you make some pictures? Thanks Robert (Czech Republic)
tcs2tx Posted March 19, 2016 Author #6 Posted March 19, 2016 Awesome!!! One question: how did you make microserver bays hot swap? The second picture above shows the door open on the HP with the 4 drive trays shown.
tcs2tx Posted March 19, 2016 Author #7 Posted March 19, 2016 Hi,could you make some pictures? Thanks Robert (Czech Republic) I edited the original post to include a number of pictures. Note - this is my first time posting images, so let me know (and advise) if they are not visible.
vejta66 Posted March 19, 2016 #8 Posted March 19, 2016 The second picture above shows the door open on the HP with the 4 drive trays shown. I cant see the images (at least from ipad). Anyway i quoteed to find the url. As i say .... awesome setup! But pay attention because i dont think u can hot plug hdd in microserver (i have one my self).
pastrychef Posted March 20, 2016 #9 Posted March 20, 2016 Can't see images on Safari in OS X 10.11.3.
M3kk Posted March 20, 2016 #10 Posted March 20, 2016 .. Synology DS1815+ and Backup XPEnology (HP Gen8 Microserver and ST-SAN-TR8X+) Doors Open showing 4 bays of HP and 8 bays of ST-SAN-TR8X+ Top view inside HP with SSD connected in optical drive bay Left view inside HP showing (1) USB key in MB slot, (2) red SATA cable in MB running up to SSD in optical drive bay, (3) HighPoint controller, and (4) SFF-8088 cables connecting to HighPoint controller Right view inside HP showing 2x 8GB ECC RAM Back view of HP showing (1) SFF-8088 cables, (2) dual GB lan in link aggregation, and (3) IPMI (aka HP iLO) Back view of ST-SAN-TR8X+ showing SFF-8088 cables
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