Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 19:28:37 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> Cc: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? Message-ID: <2E9D8528-720F-4C35-B047-2887C914CC4D@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <CACxnZKOJHeQH3=T4X3Jd-F3hrgOrirrgypG5HbdfhtFhkcaFzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPj0R5LwBkQbRvV_1MWbkNwEHOL=zCqXQt1o0pKbyipJmBUbig@mail.gmail.com> <CACxnZKOJHeQH3=T4X3Jd-F3hrgOrirrgypG5HbdfhtFhkcaFzA@mail.gmail.com>
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As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against L= inux + fuse ZFS. On 31 May 2012, at 18:05, Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> wrote: > That helps. Thank you. >=20 > This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. > We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great > opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so > much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable > for this "business" (there's no ROI at the departmental level <g>). > Solaris is not a viable option. >=20 > FreeBSD looks like the next best available option at the moment, > particularly considering the use of the storage heads as compute > machines. OpenIndiana shows promise. Nexenta has a great product, > but the user community expects more flexibility in software options. >=20 > Is there anything like a list of "supported" (known good) SAS HBA's? >=20 > Oscar >=20 > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: >> If this is any consellation I run a 36TB cluster using a self built >> server with a Promise DAS (VessJBOD 1840) using ZFS at home! to >> support my OpenSource projects and personal files. >>=20 >> As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11 >>=20 >>=20 >> All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of ZFS but still..... >>=20 >>=20 >> At work we're looking into getting a StorEdge appliance wich will >> handle up to 140+ TB. >>=20 >>=20 >> I am also in charge of redesigning one of our virtual SAN's to a >> FreeBSD ZFS storage system which will run.... well how many JBOD's can >> you fit on the system?? Probably round ~100TB or so..... >>=20 >>=20 >> Regards, >>=20 >>=20 >> Kaya >>=20 >>=20 >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> w= rote: >>> The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better >>> place to be asking this question ... >>>=20 >>> We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD >>> pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays >>> with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications >>> of people actually doing this. External JBODs would be running 24 to >>> 48TB each, roughly. There would be a couple of units. The pizza >>> boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have >>> 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. >>>=20 >>> Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability. I've set >>> up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for >>> other tasks here, and those have been successful so far. >>>=20 >>> Observations would be appreciated. >>>=20 >>> Oscar. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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