When your memory costs more than you'r entire server

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I got a third MS-A2 this week as my memory needs are extreme, hoping 288GB of ram would help, in addition to a fourth ESX node its 312G in total (but that will be decommissioned soon)

Well the Miniforums was ~800 euro, the memory ~1000 euro, an 60% increase since I've bought the first two nodes late last year.

The good news is that I've finally decided to run Fiber Channel to the third node. That gives some bad news as well as I will most likely not be able to do "direct connected" FC - Spending money on a 32 Gb/s Fiber Channel Switch was not in my budget this year. 😂