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   PID: WWIV BBS v. 424    
   TID: WWIVTOSS v. 1.52    
      
   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   
      
   --- WWIVToss v.1.52    
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