So I have vcenter test network. I wanted to have the storage for all the hosts centralized. I would play with DRS in vcenter. I wanted to nas type device so that image did not have to transfer to local storage on the hosts. I have nas and the hosts connect with 10gb network. I had attempted with this windows server 2019. That turned poorly. I am using iscsi to do this. I will point out that the original attempt was with aquantia nic. Aquantia nic did not work FreeNAS at the time. Why I used server 2019. Other specs of that machine was Asus prime b450 board, 8gb DDR 4, AMD 2200g.
So far the new machine is working much better. I still testing the machine. By run Crystal Disk mark and multiply the image at the same time. See if that breaks the image.
The specs of the machine are Gigabyte b550 board, 650-watt Seasonic power supply, Nvidia 1x Pci Geforce 710, AMD 2700, 10GB nic with intel x550 chipset, and 16 GB ram. For storage, I am using 4 x 4tb sas hard drive /w 250GB nvme cache. Then it has 2 x 500GB samsung ssd.
At some point, I am going to add more ram machines. Maybe bump the machine up 32GB ram. Wanted to play truenas and VM on the machine. Other than nic parts were just around the house. So that why the config is kind of odd. I have However, seems to work well.
Figured I post this mainly to share. If they are any comments about how to make it better or questions.