topic ONTAP Deployment on PCIe SSDs in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/ONTAP-Deployment-on-PCIe-SSDs/m-p/148564#M33066 <P>Hello, I need your help. I want to create a 2-node ONTAP Select 9.6RC1 (90-day Evaluation License) HA cluster on ESXi 6.7 for my test environment. This target will be used from the bare-metal Windows Server 2016. As bare-metal hosts, I use 2 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers:<BR />- 2xCPU - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v3 @ 2.00GHz;<BR />- 128GB RAM;<BR />- 1x 1TB HDD (for boot) ;<BR />- 1x Intel NMVe DC P3700 (PCIe 2TB);<BR />- 2x Mellanox Connectx-4 Lx 40GbE.<BR />I have a bunch of questions.<BR />1. Can I create the target on NVMe drives? Could you provide the manual on how that can be done? If there’s no way to use PCIe SSDs, where can I find any recommendations on the hardware that can be used to create a target?<BR />2. What’s the lowest possible number of SATA or PCIe SSDs is needed in each server to ensure the highest possible target performance (I'm also curious about their minimal capacity)?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:31:12 GMT ykokhanovsky 2025-06-04T12:31:12Z ONTAP Deployment on PCIe SSDs https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/ONTAP-Deployment-on-PCIe-SSDs/m-p/148564#M33066 <P>Hello, I need your help. I want to create a 2-node ONTAP Select 9.6RC1 (90-day Evaluation License) HA cluster on ESXi 6.7 for my test environment. This target will be used from the bare-metal Windows Server 2016. As bare-metal hosts, I use 2 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers:<BR />- 2xCPU - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v3 @ 2.00GHz;<BR />- 128GB RAM;<BR />- 1x 1TB HDD (for boot) ;<BR />- 1x Intel NMVe DC P3700 (PCIe 2TB);<BR />- 2x Mellanox Connectx-4 Lx 40GbE.<BR />I have a bunch of questions.<BR />1. Can I create the target on NVMe drives? Could you provide the manual on how that can be done? If there’s no way to use PCIe SSDs, where can I find any recommendations on the hardware that can be used to create a target?<BR />2. What’s the lowest possible number of SATA or PCIe SSDs is needed in each server to ensure the highest possible target performance (I'm also curious about their minimal capacity)?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:31:12 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/ONTAP-Deployment-on-PCIe-SSDs/m-p/148564#M33066 ykokhanovsky 2025-06-04T12:31:12Z