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Raid controller for Supermicro X9DRL-3F Which one to choose?
Hello dear community.
Help, please, with the choice of a raid controller for a virtualization server.
Current configuration:
Supermicro X9DRL-3F motherboard
1 processor E5-2620 v2
RAM 32 GB
From software: Vmware ESXI 5.5.0 virtualization
At the moment (I know that I need to be beaten, but it just so happened) 5 user OSes are spinning on it with Windows 7, 2 server operating systems.
What is planned: 10 raids from hdd, 1 raid ssd disks for the 1C 8.3 file base.
I provided for scalability on the server: I will add RAM, the 2nd processor later.
The question arises: which raid controller to choose in order to be able to adequately work with all this stuff?
ps: I'm not a professional in the field of server building, but I had to collect ...
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5th RAID in production on a machine that will be designed not for storing backups, but for something else? In the office, everything is so bad that there is not even money for a normal disk subsystem?
The RAID controller must be taken one that has a cache with a battery.
Only here I would not take 3Ware, even if they are with a cache and a battery.
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