I am looking at a nas software from nexenta, and after some initial testing i like what i see. So i think we will find in funding the budget for a dual setup.
We are looking at a dual cpu Supermicro server with about 32gb ram and 2 x250gb OS disks, 21 x 1TB SATA disks, and 1 x 64gb SSD disk. The system will use nexenta's auto-cdp which i think are based on AVS to remote mirror to a system a few miles away. The system will mostly be serving as a NFS server for our Vmware servers. We have about 80 vm's who access the vmfs datastores. I have read that its smart to use a few small raid groups in a larger pools, but i am uncertain about placing 21 disks in 1pool. The setup i have though of so far are: 1 pool with 3 x raidz2 groups with 6x1tb disks. 2x 64gb ssd for cache and 2 spare disks. This should give us about 12TB An another setup i have been thinking about is: 1 pool with 9 x mirror with 2 x 1TB, also with 2 spares and 2 64gb SSD. Do anyone have a recommendation on what might be a good setup? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
