topic Re: VMWare Hardware Specs + Connecting DL380 Gen 11 together questions + MSA SAS in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

VMWare Hardware Specs + Connecting DL380 Gen 11 together questions + MSA SAS

WM99 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 05:18:57 GMT

Looking to build a VMWARE HPE Build. I have a basic template and very new to this. We have our own VMWARE cluster but its out of resources. We want to build a simple vmware cluster thats easy

Setting up a small amount of VM's ~5. From applications to SQL Database

1st VM: 4 CPU, 32GB, 1TB

2nd VM: 4 CPU, 32GB, 2TB

3rd VM: Asked that Physical cores should be considered in the design. Requires 24cores 64gb of ram 1TB

4th VM: 8 CPU's 32GB 2TB

5th VM: 8 CPU 32GB 1TB

My server spec should have enough to support this many hosts with N+1. Will be getting 3x HP DL380 Gen 11

Looking to setup 10gig. The confusing part is how do I direct connect all the servers together for VMWARE.

3x HPE DL380 Gen 11

2x INTEL XEON-SILVER 4514Y 16cores
256GB of Ram 8x32
1x Broadcom BCM57412 Ethernet 10Gb 2-port SFP+ OCP3 Adapter for HPE
1x Broadcom BCM5719 Ethernet 1Gb 4-port BASE-T OCP3 Adapter for HPE
1x 480GB Read intensive SSD
1x HPE NS204i-u Gen11 NVMe Hot Plug Boot Optimized Storage Device Raid 1 480x480
2x 1000w psu
1x HPE Smart Array E208e-p SR Gen10 (8 External Lanes/No Cache) 12G SAS PCIe Plug-in Controller

1x HPE MSA 2062 12Gb SAS SFF Storage

22x HPE MSA 1.92TB SAS 12G Read Intensive SFF (2.5in) M2 3yr Wty SSD

Connections

1x Cisco 9500 16 port 10GB SFP switch - 3 ports taken 1x each server.
1x Cisco 9300 24 Port 1GB Switch - 12 ports taken 4x each server for redundancy. + 4 for ilo = 16

HPE MSA SAS

3x SAS Connector from MSA to each server.

I guess my question is direct connecting the 3 servers together? I assume doing it over the 10GB switch would be a bad idea?

Re: VMWare Hardware Specs + Connecting DL380 Gen 11 together questions + MSA SAS

shiva_jr — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:28:18 GMT

Hi @WM99 ,

Yes, you can make the connectivity in such a way that all the servers should be connected to the same network fabric (if the setup is small, you can connect to same switch). ALl the Esxi, Vcenter and other VMs should be in same subnet.
Since, only 3 servers will be used here, you can use the 10gig switch also. (Please mind about scalability of the setup if you want to add more resouce in future).

Regards,
Shiva_JR

Query: VMWare Hardware Specs + Connecting DL380 Gen 11 together questions + MSA SAS

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