Repurposing a HPE/Nimble CS1000

I picked up a HPE/Nimble CS1000 array for the low low price of free a while back, and it's sat in storage since. about time I did something with it! these are rebranded SuperMicro "SuperStorage" SSG-6048R-DE2CR24L units - featuring two compute nodes ( X10DRS-4U - each with two LGA2011 R3 sockets + 8 DIMM slots), and a 24-bay 3.5" SAS backplane (where both compute nodes have access to all drives at…