Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
At the time we had it setup as 3 x 5 disk raidz, plus a hot spare. These 16 disks were in a SAS cabinet, and the the slog was on the server itself. We are now running 2 x 7 raidz2 plus a hot spare and slog, all inside the cabinet. Since the disks are 1.5T, I was concerned about resliver times fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-19 Thread Katzke, Karl
group. --- Karl Katzke Systems Analyst II TAMU DRGS -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of JOrdan Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:42 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-16 Thread JOrdan
Thanks Scott. I really appreciate your feedback. I'm curious about the number of disks, raidz/2 setup information? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/l

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-16 Thread Scott Meilicke
I have used build 124 in this capacity, although I did zero tuning. I had about 4T of data on a single 5T iSCSI volume over gigabit. The windows server was a VM, and the opensolaris box is on a Dell 2950, 16G of RAM, x25e for the zil, no l2arc cache device. I used comstar. It was being used as

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-16 Thread JOrdan
For ease of administration with everyone in the department i'd prefer to keep everything consistent in the windows world. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-15 Thread Günther
hello do you want to use it as a file smb-fileserver or do you want to have other windows services? if you want to use it as a file server only, i would suggest to use build in cifs server. iscsi will be always slower than native cifs server and you have snapshots via windows property previo

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for ISCSI ntfs backing store.

2010-04-15 Thread JOrdan
I'm looking to move our file storage from Windows to Opensolaris/zfs. The windows box will be connected through 10g for iscsi to the storage. The windows box will continue to serve the windows clients and will be hosting approximately 4TB of data. The physical box is a sunfire x4240, single AMD