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I have an old HP t620 Plus kicking around from when I used it for pFsense... I could probably try and install something on that. You mentioned SolarWinds, is that free? (I guess I can google around to find out as well).
I'm not really sure what this thing has in it, so maybe I'll crack the shell 1st and see what I can do to add storage if needed.
I caught a mistake, it is Starwinds san and there was a full-featured free version. They seem to have updated their page so I am less familiar with the new vsan software so dig into it if you are curious.
I did spin up ESOS as well and that is a fairly simple thing to start up if you just want to try and build a volume to test out.
Your t620 is an AMD APU with some sata and PCIe. You can probably just put in an SSD to see how it goes and scale up to new/bigger hardware if you want.
I know that I still have a bunch of FC hardware and it is pretty cool tech. Super low latency purpose built storage protocol.
You probably meant Starwind SAN and NAS a bare-metal deployment.
Yep, that is the one!
IIRC it was pretty reasonable for resources too.