Kent Watsen wrote: > I'm putting together a OpenSolaris ZFS-based system and need help > picking hardware.
Fun exercise! :) > I'm thinking about using this 26-disk case: [FYI: 2-disk RAID1 for the > OS & 4*(4+2) RAIDZ2 for SAN] What are you *most* interested in for this server? Reliability? Capacity? High Performance? Reading or writing? Large contiguous reads or small seeks? One thing that I did that got a good feedback from this list was picking apart the requirements of the most demanding workflow I imagined for the machine I was speccing out. > Regarding the mobo, cpus, and memory - I searched goggle and the ZFS > site and all I came up with so far is that, for a dedicated iSCSI-based > SAN, I'll need about 1 Gb of memory and a low-end processor - can anyone > clarify exactly how much memory/cpu I'd need to be in the safe-zone? > Also, are there any mobo/chipsets that are particularly well suited for > a dedicated iSCSI-based SAN? I'm learning more and more about this subject as I test the server (not all that dissimilar to what you've described, except with only 18 disks) I now have. I'm frustrated at the relative unavailability of PCIe SATA controller cards that are ZFS-friendly (i.e., JBOD), and the relative unavailability of motherboards that support both the latest CPUs as well as have a good PCI-X architecture. If you come across some potential solutions, I think a lot of people here will thank you for sharing... adam _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
