Subj : Re: Upgrade.
To   : Nick Andre
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Sat Nov 08 2025 05:20 pm


NA> I started down the rabbit-hole of NAS storage with those WD-Mybook
NA> things, of
NA> which I quickly outgrew... which led to acquiring the servers from a
NA> local chop-shop in Toronto.

My "Cheap Man's SAN" is one of my SuperMicro 4U servers, which has (36) 3.5" drive bays.  You can really load it up with drives and make a cheap SAN by loading Windows Server 2022 or whatever you want.  I like hardware RAID, but you can present iSCSI to VMWare if you like to run remote storage.  

I have separate 10Gbps NICs that I use for just the iSCSI storage network, but 99.9% of the time, I run all the VMs on local storage.  Only when I'm failing over or something do I move them to iSCSI LUNs.

- Mark

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