Kashiro Posted September 27, 2023 Share #1 Posted September 27, 2023 Hi everyone, I'm planning on moving away from my current synology unit to a new (first time) xpenology build. Current setup: RS2418RP+ DSM 7.1.1 12x 8TB HDD in SHR1 Planned setup: Intel i3-12100T Asus Prime Z690-A 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz 3x or 4x M.2 NVME drive (tbd) 12x 8TB HDD Inter-Tech IPC 2U-2412 (12x hotswap bays with sata/sas backplane) LSI SAS9300-16i HBA in IT mode (non-raid) Mellanox ConnectX-4 Dual Port 25Gbe (MCX4121A-ACAT) So I've been doing some reading around the forums about which platform to use and it seems DS3622xs+ is most suitable, please correct me if I'm wrong though. I'm not looking to use the iGPU at all, so no support needed for that. I have a couple of questions: 1. Is the LSI HBA supported? 2. Is the Mellanox NIC supported? 3. Can I migrate my existing SHR1 array without formatting? I'm reading that SHR isn't enabled/supported on newer models by default? 4. Can I use the M.2 NVME drives to create a new volume? Not looking to use these for caching but planning to create an all-flash volume as datastore for vmware. 5. I'll soon be running into the 108TB volume limit with this array. Any way to convert to 200TB without formatting? Synology says that you have to recreate the volume, but maybe there's some magic that can be done with Xpenology? Please let me know if I've missed anything obvious. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhubarb Posted September 29, 2023 Share #2 Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) Hi Kashiro, sorry, I'm not much help but can advise that my Xpenology DS3622XS+ is running with HBA (LSI SAS9300-8i HBA in IT mode (non-raid)) plus a second LSI SAS9300-8i incorporated in the Supermicro M'rd X11SSL-CF. My son used Redpill to create the loader so I can't provide all details. System is currently on DSM 7.2-64570 Update 3. System is running with 16 x 16TB HDDs, 8 on each HBA. A separate volume is on each HBA. CPU is Xeon E3-1245v6. Not using any SATA ports on the M'brd. System mainly used as a Plex server. Edited September 29, 2023 by Rhubarb additional info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhubarb Posted September 29, 2023 Share #3 Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) System is running with 16 x 16TB HDDs, 8 on each HBA. A separate Storage Pool/volume for each HBA; each running as SHR-2. Edited September 29, 2023 by Rhubarb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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