Hardware for SoFS cluster for Hyper-V

Hi,
I'm considering placing a SoFS cluster in front of my existing SAN to allow a Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster to use SMB 3.0 shares for storage. 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb FC used. I would connect the Hyper-V cluster to SoFS with 10Gb Ethernet on separate storage VLAN
and connect the SoFS nodes to the SAN with 8Gb FC. What type of servers would you recommend for this? I'm thinking something like 2x Dell R620 2x 12core xeon cpu, 128GB RAM with 4 10Gb ethernet NICs and 4 8Gb FC HBAs.
CPU and RAM are not an issue. CPU is completely irrelevant and RAM can be used for CSV cache so more you throw in faster you can go with read-intensive workloads. SMB3 is not cached on SoFS shares. Making long story short: you'll be fine :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

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--- When you hit a wrong note its the next note that makes it good or bad. --- Miles Davis

Hi Sir,
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