Bulb lab

3 Nodes

U-NAS

SuperMicro

LSI RAID controller

HP 1810 24G v2

Pros

• Small Footprint
• Low Energy consumption - 20W
• Support up to 64GB RAM /node
• Noise friendly
• vSAN HCL compliant

Pros

• NAS Form Factor - 8 disks / node
• 1 x IPMI 2.0
• 4 x igb Intel Nics (great for NSX)
• VMware-ESXi-5.5U2-RollupISO2

Cons

• Perf
• Cost >$$$ NUC option
• SODIMM ECC Memory :(
• Expensive 16 GB module (330€)

Bills of Materials

• 256 GB SSD Samsung Serie 840 Pro - 170€
• 2 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 - 80€
• 16 GB SODIMM ECC - 200€
• SoC Motherboard - 400€
• Chassis 8 bay + Controller LSI - 450€

Bills of Materials

• 1300€ / server
• 190 € / network

Use Cases

• NSX Lab Environment
• DevOps (Ansible)
• OpenStack
• NexentaConnect for vSAN 1.0
• Up to 60TB+ vSAN Storage :) :) :)