[OmniOS-discuss] HP Z230 as a home server

[Dan McDonald]

> On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Dominik Hassler <hasslerd at gmx.li> wrote:

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> of course i'd like to have an omnios server at home, too. nothing fancy,
> basically just for data storage (nfs and smb sharing) and 1-2 linux kvms
> for multimedia services and auxiliary stuff. since i don't have a
> dedicated room where noise does not matter i have to consider quiet
> "workstation hardware" instead of noisy "server hardware".
> 
> here is the hardware setup i am planning to go with:
> - HP Z230 (WM583EA#UUZ) which is basically

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/z230.html

Interesting.  It's a socket 1150 workstation.  Good for illumos.

>  -> Intel PCH C226 chipset
>  -> E3-1225v3 quad core XEON

Gotta get that ECC support.  Also, while not HT, it does have good clock speed (> 3GHz).

>  -> Intel I217LM PCIe Gigabit-Controller

Supported, and relatively new.  Should show up as e1000g.  I notice you can get a 2nd ethernet with an I210. This would show up as igb.

> - 4x 8 GB ECC RAM (HP A2Z50AA)

Gotta do ECC!

> - 1x 1 TB WD Re, S-ATA III (512n) as rpool
> - 2x 4 TB WD Re, S-ATA III (512n) as a data mirror

I might swap in an SSD for rpool, but that's just me.  (NOTE:  If you do use an SSD, don't use it for swap, though with 32GB, you won't need swap at all).  And for your data, it doesn't matter (I don't think) if it's 512 or 4k sectors, just so long as you know what it is up front, they MATCH, and set things appropriately when creating the pool.

If others here have opinions, you ought to share 'em.  I'm running a Supermicro not unlike what the HP offers:

	http://kebesays.blogspot.com/2014/06/home-data-center-20-dogfooding-again.html

I got more NICs though.  :)

Thanks, and hope this helps,
Dan