I recently purchased my first piece of enterprise hardware (PowerEdge R620) and looking into some info on setting up cachecade. I understand that it requires dell certified SSDs and such but my question is can I install a pcie ssd for cache as I currently have all 8 bays populated with drives in a RAID 10 config? This machine will be used for hypervisors and I’m still upgrading it.
Current Specs: (2) E5-2640
(8) 300GB 10k SAS spinning rust
64GB RAM single rank minus one bad dimm which explains the new ram
Perc H710 Mini
IDRAC Enterprise
Parts coming in the mail:
(2) E5- 2697 v2
96GB RAM dual rank
open to insight on what would preform better, as this is my first homelab setup.
Maybe a little bit of a masochist as i’m considering Fedora Server as my first pick as I’ve got a good amount of exposure to Fedora as I run it on both my custom built pc and thinkpad