Excellent video and content as always! I appreciate seeing behind the scenes into what makes 2GT one of my go to channels. The content and the explanations are spot on and easy for someone new at IT to understand. Great job guys!
I have no idea what you talked about… I’m knowledgeable with gaming PCs but pretty much illiterate when it comes to server universe. But I do have great respect for the quality of your video and the obvious passion you put into your project. Thank you for sharing !
Wow! Your videos are always so good. I always look forward to your server build videos! Actually, I always look forward to all videos on the channel. So well done and the knowledge is awesome! Well done!
Likely not. The design of the nodes isn’t to the ATX standard, so you’d have to do some pretty extreme custom work to get them both in, power connected, and the drive interfaces available.
How come and the satadom usb has a cable ? Does it have onboard a small battery or something? Else what is it's purpose (you just mentioned it needs the cable to work)? Also noticed the server has 2 yellow sata ports so you could have redundancy for your os as well. About the configuration you ve done, you mentioned you are going to use iscsi for both nodes to install Vms . I am under the impression that iscsi shares are best to be provided on a topology client - server and not clients - server due to corruption events when using the storage at the same time. It is different to cut the storage in half and have one node to take first half of storage (your case 1 tb for one node and another 1 tb for the other node) than to share the same storage to two different nodes. Finally, at hardware concept, didn t get how truenas seen all the disks since as a vm got installed on one node, and each node has 6 drives dedicated. Thank you PS What about the audible part of server? Only for garage?
I'll do my best to answer these questions: 1) SATADOMs are SATA-connected SSDs, not USB sticks though I can see why you'd think that from their physical packaging. They connect directly to a SATA port on the mainboard, and the little wire is 5v DC to power them. 2) iSCSI can be used for either clients or servers, but what I think you're confused about is the multi-connectivity aspect of it. First off, I'm using iSCSI from each VMware ESXi host to the storage backend running TrueNAS SCALE and serving the same storage pool to both hosts - This doesn't cause corruption because the iSCSI disk that's shared between the hosts is formatted in VMFS 6 which is natively multi-user and designed for the storage of virtual machine disks. 3) The dual-node host doesn't have any storage in it - all storage is being provided over the network via iSCSI and NFS from the TrueNAS SCALE host acting as our 'SAN' or 'Storage-Attached Network'.
@@2GuysTek 1. Probably forgot the ssd aspect of the SATADOM .... so ok then, makes sense. 2.Key point here was >. Nice. 3.Still don t get it. In the video you have occupied all the available slots of the MICROserver with disks (sata / sas / nvme) So what do you mean by - but it does . I judst didn tget how you managed it from software perpective. From h/w went and inspected some pics of the server and noticed that each node has a long pci card which slides to the corresponding front of the server and has access to 6 disks for the left node and 6 for the right one (you showed this in you video as well)
Could this server be used for big data analytics, VM and ml/ai purposes and if not could you recommend a couple of server suggestions? (I'm trying to set up a home lab for days science purposes and I'm struggling to find options that under 1k just for the chassis!)
Great question! This dual-node system would provide you essentially two hosts in a single box. The downside here is that this host doesn't have a lot of physical space for add-in GPUs which will very likely be necessary for your AI/ML workloads. So, based on that requirement, have a look at this video we did here: th-cam.com/video/rbTx0-ZjXGE/w-d-xo.html This system has dual sockets and plenty of space for multiple GPUs. Happy to talk about it more with you if you have any further questions! consider joining our Discord here: discord.com/invite/9mgwE2bBwh Best of luck, and thank you for the questioN!
If you don’t need dual nodes then a single host like Superboi would be better. Superboi has 12-bays vs. 6-bays per node. It’ll all depending on what your goals are for your server. Consider joining our discord, we’ve got a lot of people doing homelab and self-hosting and we’re all happy to help!
I mean thats how you make money, I mean I do the same with scrap cars, got a bunch of good parts I can sell for more than what I Can get out of the entire car as a whole lol
Excellent video and content as always! I appreciate seeing behind the scenes into what makes 2GT one of my go to channels. The content and the explanations are spot on and easy for someone new at IT to understand. Great job guys!
I have no idea what you talked about… I’m knowledgeable with gaming PCs but pretty much illiterate when it comes to server universe.
But I do have great respect for the quality of your video and the obvious passion you put into your project. Thank you for sharing !
Thank you for watching Henry! Servers aren’t that much different than gaming PCs! Some day we’ll convince you to have a server at home! 🤣😂
Wow! Your videos are always so good. I always look forward to your server build videos! Actually, I always look forward to all videos on the channel. So well done and the knowledge is awesome! Well done!
We appreciate it!
We just got a 5 node HCI cluster at work but would love to see one built from the ground up. Ours was setup by corporate so I never got to set it up.
What’s your HCI cluster running?
@@2GuysTek Nutanix
Curiouse, is the dual node Supermicro Really loud ?
It’s not! In fact, it’s quieter than the other Supermicros we have. We were pleasantly surprised.
@@2GuysTek ALRIGHT !! I'm ordering one then !! :)
I have got a question, i have got a chieftec big tower server can i build this in to this chieftec big tower server.
Likely not. The design of the nodes isn’t to the ATX standard, so you’d have to do some pretty extreme custom work to get them both in, power connected, and the drive interfaces available.
How come and the satadom usb has a cable ? Does it have onboard a small battery or something? Else what is it's purpose (you just mentioned it needs the cable to work)?
Also noticed the server has 2 yellow sata ports so you could have redundancy for your os as well.
About the configuration you ve done, you mentioned you are going to use iscsi for both nodes to install Vms . I am under the impression that iscsi shares are best to be provided on a topology client - server and not clients - server due to corruption events when using the storage at the same time. It is different to cut the storage in half and have one node to take first half of storage (your case 1 tb for one node and another 1 tb for the other node) than to share the same storage to two different nodes.
Finally, at hardware concept, didn t get how truenas seen all the disks since as a vm got installed on one node, and each node has 6 drives dedicated.
Thank you
PS What about the audible part of server? Only for garage?
I'll do my best to answer these questions:
1) SATADOMs are SATA-connected SSDs, not USB sticks though I can see why you'd think that from their physical packaging. They connect directly to a SATA port on the mainboard, and the little wire is 5v DC to power them.
2) iSCSI can be used for either clients or servers, but what I think you're confused about is the multi-connectivity aspect of it. First off, I'm using iSCSI from each VMware ESXi host to the storage backend running TrueNAS SCALE and serving the same storage pool to both hosts - This doesn't cause corruption because the iSCSI disk that's shared between the hosts is formatted in VMFS 6 which is natively multi-user and designed for the storage of virtual machine disks.
3) The dual-node host doesn't have any storage in it - all storage is being provided over the network via iSCSI and NFS from the TrueNAS SCALE host acting as our 'SAN' or 'Storage-Attached Network'.
@@2GuysTek
1. Probably forgot the ssd aspect of the SATADOM .... so ok then, makes sense.
2.Key point here was >. Nice.
3.Still don t get it. In the video you have occupied all the available slots of the MICROserver with disks (sata / sas / nvme) So what do you mean by - but it does . I judst didn tget how you managed it from software perpective. From h/w went and inspected some pics of the server and noticed that each node has a long pci card which slides to the corresponding front of the server and has access to 6 disks for the left node and 6 for the right one (you showed this in you video as well)
I thought Supermicro DOM ports are powered and don't require the extra power??
Unfortunately they do, or we should say, we’ve never found a SATADOM that didn’t require additional power.
Could this server be used for big data analytics, VM and ml/ai purposes and if not could you recommend a couple of server suggestions?
(I'm trying to set up a home lab for days science purposes and I'm struggling to find options that under 1k just for the chassis!)
Great question! This dual-node system would provide you essentially two hosts in a single box. The downside here is that this host doesn't have a lot of physical space for add-in GPUs which will very likely be necessary for your AI/ML workloads. So, based on that requirement, have a look at this video we did here: th-cam.com/video/rbTx0-ZjXGE/w-d-xo.html This system has dual sockets and plenty of space for multiple GPUs. Happy to talk about it more with you if you have any further questions! consider joining our Discord here: discord.com/invite/9mgwE2bBwh Best of luck, and thank you for the questioN!
I’m thinking about buying a server. I don’t need 2 nodes. Do you recommend still getting this one or something more like superboi?
If you don’t need dual nodes then a single host like Superboi would be better. Superboi has 12-bays vs. 6-bays per node. It’ll all depending on what your goals are for your server. Consider joining our discord, we’ve got a lot of people doing homelab and self-hosting and we’re all happy to help!
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Wow. I had a Supermicro Server shipped up the street and it was damaged.
17:55 mans has 500gbe what ISP does he have lol
That’s Kevin smith.
I mean thats how you make money, I mean I do the same with scrap cars, got a bunch of good parts I can sell for more than what I Can get out of the entire car as a whole lol
You have leaked your IP
That’s true and thank you for pointing it out! The ISP we use has us on DHCP, so we already cycled the address!
@@2GuysTek Yess, but you also leaked a Dynamic DNS record
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