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First of all, the server is great. Skylake-gen of CPUs is still great, with great NICs (best Intel NIC, IMO) and a good enough RAID controller. However, single Silver Xeon w/ 8 cores and 2.1 GHz frequency will most likely be a bottleneck compared with your primary node. I would turn it into a NAS. Just drop there a TrueNAS or Starwinds SAN and NAS or OMV and share the storage to your primary server via NFS or iSCSI. You can even drop ESXi on the T440, add this node to the cluster (to manage the server via a single console - vCenter) and deploy the NAS application as the VM.
First of all, the server is great. Skylake-gen of CPUs is still great, with great NICs (best Intel NIC, IMO) and a good enough RAID controller. However, single Silver Xeon w/ 8 cores and 2.1 GHz frequency will most likely be a bottleneck compared with your primary node. I would turn it into a NAS. Just drop there a TrueNAS or Starwinds SAN and NAS or OMV and share the storage to your primary server via NFS or iSCSI. You can even drop ESXi on the T440, add this node to the cluster (to manage the server via a single console - vCenter) and deploy the NAS application as the VM.