For my vSAN instance I’m using 3 HP Gen 8 Microservers which form my NSX for vSphere lab cluster. The spec for all 3 nodes is:
CPU: Xeon E3-1265L v2 (Ivy Bridge)
16Gb RAM,
20TB HDDs
(3xWD Red 6TB for vSAN, 1x WD Blue 2TB for local storage )
256Gb Samsung 860 EVO SSD
HPE QLogic 57810s 2x10Gb NIC
Broadcom (onboard) 2x1Gb NIC
I have these NICs connected to two switches – a Cisco 3750G (which acts as my management switch and is always on) and a Cisco 4900M (which provides 10Gb switchports and is powered on when I’m using my lab). The two switches are connected together via 4x1Gb trunks and share the same common VLANs.
The benefit of using this particular model of HP Microserver as a platform is that although it isn’t officially listed as supported on the vSphere 7 HCL, all hardware works with vSphere 7 out of the box with no modifications.
