[zfs-discuss] Large ZFS server questions

2009-11-23 Thread John Welter
Hi everyone, We've been reasonably happy with ZFS running on Dell 2970/MD1000 hardware. We are running pools of about 50TB usable (60 drives) made up of many RaidZ2 groups. Anyhow, we now have the desire to build pool's even larger - in the 300TB range. Having that much disk behind a single

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for NFS back end

2009-02-09 Thread John Welter
up a lot from the traffic. Thanks again. John -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:28 AM To: John Welter Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for NFS back end On Mon, 9 Feb 2009,

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for NFS back end

2009-02-09 Thread John Welter
Hi everyone, We are looking at ZFS to use as the back end to a pool of java servers doing image processing and serving this content over the internet. Our current solution is working well but the cost to scale and ability to scale is becoming a problem. Currently: - 20TB NFS servers running Fre