Server: Blade System to Deploy as a all in one Video assistant. Ingest Option, Transcode, Failover, Doomsday Station.

[moontide]

Budget (including currency): Most Hardware Acquired. Small budget for additional software and(or) hardware.

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Editing Server Assist.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

 

(Its funny, I have yet to find the 2U system model)

 

 

I have:

 

2U rackmount  Supermicro Server with 4 blades:

4xX9DRT-HF

 

Blade 1:

  2x e5-2640 v2 @ 2.00GHZ (8 Core, 16 Thread)

  40GB DDR3 10600 (32GB CPU0, 8GB CPU1)

  2xSSHD 2TB (8GB NVMe)

  160GB HDD (OS, Brand New)

  SFF PCI-e 16x (single rise, confined)

  Windows 2019 Server Standard

 

Blade 2:

  2x e5-2640 v2 @ 2.00GHZ (8 Core, 16 Thread)

  16GB DDR3 10600 (8GB CPU0, 8GB CPU1)

  2x1TB HDD

  160GB HDD (OS)

  SFF PCI-e 16x (single rise, confined)

 

Blade 3:

  2x e5-2640 v2 @ 2.00GHZ (8 Core, 16 Thread)

  16GB DDR3 10600 (8GB CPU0, 8GB CPU1)

  2x1TB HDD

  160GB HDD (OS)

  SFF PCI-e 16x (single rise, confined)

 

Blade 4:

  2x e5-2640 v2 @ 2.00GHZ (8 Core, 16 Thread)

  16GB DDR3 10600 (8GB CPU0, 8GB CPU1)

  1x1TB HDD (1 open caddie)

  160GB HDD (OS)

  SFF PCI-e 16x (single rise, confined)

 

 

 

 

 

I'm thinking 

Ingest

Transcode

Failover for some or all of services

Worst case video editor

 

 

Keeping 2 systems the same, I can have hardware redundancy with a hdd swap.

There are only 3x 3.5 bays per blade so NAS doesn't seem like a good idea. The server used to have a bunch of ram. This is it's retirement.

I have a very good selection of parts except video cards and large HDD/SSD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QUESTION:

 

How would you configure this system for a person who want a server addition to their workstation and NAS?

 

I have plenty of time.

 

 

[moontide]

Supermicro X9DRT 4-Node Server Xeon E5-2640 v2 2.00GHz (x8) 512GB RAM No HDDs * | eBay

[moontide]

GOAL:

 

I want a budget server for the Youtuber on up and up. They likely have a nice workstation and a decent storage system. I want to build a piece of hardware that will allow them to expand and be an asset to the TEAM.

[moontide]

A little h-264 add-in card should go in there somewhere.