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Nvious81

Mini-pcs nodes for esxi cluster and vsan as homelab

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I am currently using an old Dell PE R730 for a single host ESXi 7.x homelab server for running VMs. I want to move to something a little less power hunger and add ability possibly runing 2/3 nodes with vsan. I am wondering what folks thought about buying these Minisforum NPB6 i7-13620H with 64GB ram and 2TB NVMe drives. Does anyone know if I could get VSAN working with those. I would use one 2.5gbe nic on a dedicated unmanaged 2.5gb switch for vsan, vmotion traffic. The vsan would use the NVMe drives and esxi would use the SATA ssd slot. That is the idea anyway.

Posted Nov 2, 2023, 1:25 AM UTC

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