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 FreeBSD - Load balancer in front of them A bit about the workload: - 99.999% large reads, very small write requirement. - Reads average from ~1MB to 60MB. - Peak read bandwidth we see is ~180MB/s, with average around 20MB/s during peak hours. Proposed hardware: - Dell PowerEdge 2970's, 16GB RAM, quad cores of AMD. - LSI 1068 based SAS cards * 2 per server - 4 MD1000 with 1TB ES2's * 15 - Configured as 2 * 7 disk RaidZ2 with 1 HS per chassis - Intel 10 gig-e to the switching infrastructure Questions: 1) Solaris, OpenSolaris, etc?? What's the best for production? 2) Anything wrong with the hardware we selected? 3) any other words of wisdom - we are just starting out with ZFS but do have some Solaris background. Thanks! John _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
