On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 09:28, Open Indiana <openindi...@out-side.nl> wrote: > If money is not an issue ( you want to buy A-grade hardware) why not look at > Oracle hardware in combination with Solaris 11. When you buy Oracle hardware > you have full support on hard- and software in the first year. > > I know I am walking on the edge right now, but when you have a budget there > is no reason to not buy Solaris 11 instead of OpenIndiana.
If Svavar should be spending money on the OS, then why not suggest Nexenta? They make an storage appliance operating system, and at the same time contributes to illumos. It lets the OP use HP servers if he so prefers, and it can help out illumos and thereby OpenIndiana at the same time. Sure, Sun/Oracle do create nice hardware, but with the redundancy and error detection available in illumos/OpenIndiana, I don't see any need for paying their premium for the hardware compared to other manufactures. Svavar, the two points to have in mind when considering hardware for such a storage system would be: 1. How much RAM it takes. ZFS likes RAM and preferably uses it as its read cache, which gives really fast response times for often accessed data. That along with the predictive read-ahead makes large streaming reads fast as well. 2. How many drives it handles and which types. Depending on your workload and expectations for the speed of the storage system, you may want to look into adding SSDs to your setup. ZFS can both use them as a read cache - extending the existing read cache in RAM - or as a write cache for synchronous writes, if your application makes use of that (note: iSCSI writes are always synchronous!). -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer) _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
