hey all,
Nore: Feel free to move this to Server forum, but given the hardware i'm looking at is more SFF, thought would be ideal here too
For anyone experienced with vmware, i currently have a Asrock Deskmini which i use as a small lab with ESXi on it using nested virtualization... but i am limited by the amount of memory for what i want to play around with.. mainly VSAN, vRealize Operations, Horizon View, NSX etc.
My main goal is to set up a 3 node cluster, and wondered whether i can mix and match hardware configurations? I see plenty of articles with BOM and custom setups but they all seem to use 2+ identical hardware, whereas i'll be using:
1x Asrock Deskmini H110 - i5 8400T with 32Gb Memory
1x Supermicro SYS-300 9D - Xeon D-2123IT with 64Gb memory (expandable to 512GB using LRDIMM or 256GB RDIMM in the future) (Contemplating on purchasing)
1x My personal rig which runs on Ryzen 5800x with 64Gb memory - acting as a witness server
1x My Synology DS413J NAS
Is that possible or do i need to purchase/have 3x identical hardware? e.g. 3x Intel Nuc Baby Canyon or 3x Asrock Deskmini H110
Nore: Feel free to move this to Server forum, but given the hardware i'm looking at is more SFF, thought would be ideal here too
For anyone experienced with vmware, i currently have a Asrock Deskmini which i use as a small lab with ESXi on it using nested virtualization... but i am limited by the amount of memory for what i want to play around with.. mainly VSAN, vRealize Operations, Horizon View, NSX etc.
My main goal is to set up a 3 node cluster, and wondered whether i can mix and match hardware configurations? I see plenty of articles with BOM and custom setups but they all seem to use 2+ identical hardware, whereas i'll be using:
1x Asrock Deskmini H110 - i5 8400T with 32Gb Memory
1x Supermicro SYS-300 9D - Xeon D-2123IT with 64Gb memory (expandable to 512GB using LRDIMM or 256GB RDIMM in the future) (Contemplating on purchasing)
1x My personal rig which runs on Ryzen 5800x with 64Gb memory - acting as a witness server
1x My Synology DS413J NAS
Is that possible or do i need to purchase/have 3x identical hardware? e.g. 3x Intel Nuc Baby Canyon or 3x Asrock Deskmini H110