Nick wrote: > I have been tasked with putting together a storage solution for use in a > virtualization setup, serving NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, over GigE. I've inherited > a few components to work with: > > x86 dual core server , 512MB LSI-8888ELP RAID card > 12 x 300GB 15Krpm SAS disks & array > 2GB Flash to IDE "disk"/adaptor. > > The system will be serving virtual hard disks to a range of vmware systems > connected by GigE, running enterprise workloads that are impossible to > predict at this point. > > Using the RAID cards capability for RAID6 sounds attractive? >
Assuming the card works well with Solaris, this sounds like a reasonable solution. > Using the Flash RAM for the ZIL? > I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Just carve off a LUN or slice on the RAID card and use its NVRAM cache. A consumer class flash "disk" will be slower. > Using zfs for general storage management? > > cool. > Has anyone built a similar system, what is the true path to success? > Success is at the summit, but there are several paths up the mountain. > What are the pitfalls? > What should I have on my reading list for starters? > Start with the ZFS system admin guide on opensolaris.org. We try to keep the solarisinternals.com wikis up to date also. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
