I have never used TrueNAS but I guess you could provision a separate volume and use iSCSI on top of that, and serve your very large database just to make things easier.
you can in theory connect multiple hosts to the same JBOD with SAS, there are even "SAS Switches" that are built for that purpose.
But if you do this incorrectly and initiate the incorrect drives your TrueNAS data is bye-bye
generally 1U servers are not loud in the datacenters, that's just a myth, the main reason might be misconfiguration, or a datacenter that does not have any cooling....
if you control the fans your pizza boxes will run hotter, and might be throttling, or just shutdown completely.
running customers in your basement seems to be a horrible idea, but its your business :)
These are over 10 years old and are not really useful for anything, they are passively cooled. All this is quite easy info from google....
So useless unless you really want to get your hands dirty on VDI but it seems a bit out of your league at this point in time. that's why the cost like $40 on eBay.
the only good news is that they do not require a license to do vGPU / vVDI
, but $1,000 in cash
not sure how this would help me, I've spend 10k or more, but I could get a t-shirt I guess?
SQL server express is available even for Linux so that might be an interesting homelab setup.
Otherwise you can use a trial license for (any) windows client or server to run SQL Express. This of course implies that you dont run any commercial stuff, but you posted in homelab
want the f**** ?
Let's make this sub higher quality.
6 years on reddit and not a single post in homelab, perhaps you can share your own homelab, or perhaps sign up to be a mod, or create your own sub? You can raise quality by contributing as well....
SAS expanders are by nature internal as external enclosures normally have built in expanders.
The closes you can get would be an "SAS Switch" like the Broadcom 6160, but they are not easy to find (I have one in my closet)
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have been running my own mail server(s) since early 2000. If Hillary can, you can :)
but of course there are downsides as well, you need to expose services from the outside, you need to allow SNMP inbound, you need to deal with DNS and various mail security enhancements, deal with anti-spam and do mailware/virus scanning etc. on top of that you would need to consider some kind of "high" availability. if your server goes down = no emails..
for me its worth it, my exchange server have been running for the last 10 years or so, I publish both webmail and use the outlook and/or mail in my phone.
I have multiple domain (10+) and run my own DNS.
The only thing I can't do is send emails.... I have to rely on my ISP for outgoing emails, but that's a good thing as generally my emails are not marked as spam as they comes from a trusted source.
Arista DCX-7060CX-32s has a depth of only 16". A lot of Aristas are shallow depth.
Actually I didn't know that, we have a few Arista as work but I never looked at the depth. They are quite perfect in terms of dimensions at least
A more pricey switch
yea, ouch! §6k and upwards, sure I dont mind spending thousands but that is out of my league. My main use-case is to get rid of fiber channel, but I'd get a 16Gbit/s or 32Gbit/s FC switch for that :)
not sure I understand, what OS should these computers run? should this also be NAS storage? Or is it just the database filesystem that should be on the NAS?
honestly it looks like you don't have the knowhow to setup shared storage, it seems you are more a developer type of person, so KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
run local storage, your databases won't be even gigabytes in size, get some cheap SSD drives instead (SATA) if you want I/O.
also all your databased won't dive when your accidentally pull the power plug to your NAS or trip over the ethernet cable.