Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I am planning on building a SAN for my home meta centre, and have some > of the raid cards I need for the build. I will be ordering the case > soon, and then the drives. The cards I have are 2 8 port PXI-Express > cards (A dell Perc 5 and a Adaptec card…). The case will have 20 hot > swap SAS/SAT

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole > > I have read something about trying to setup redundancy with the RAID > controllers, so having zpools spanning multiple controllers. Given I > won't be using the on-board RAID

[zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-26 Thread tie...@lotas-smartman.net
Good morning all. This question has probably poped up before, but maybe not in this exact way... I am planning on building a SAN for my home meta centre, and have some of the raid cards I need for the build. I will be ordering the case soon, and then the drives. The cards I have are 2 8 port PX

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-25 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Tiernan, Hardware redundancy is important, but I would be thinking about how you are going to back up data in the 6-24 TB range, if you actually need that much space. Balance your space requirements with good redundancy and how much data you can safely back up because stuff happens: hardware fai

[zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-25 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning all. This question has probably poped up before, but maybe not in this exact way… I am planning on building a SAN for my home meta centre, and have some of the raid cards I need for the build. I will be ordering the case soon, and then the drives. The cards I have are 2 8 port PX