From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 16:05:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8771065673 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 16:05:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscar.hodgson@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB8E8FC23 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 16:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so1310359bkv.13 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 09:05:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PAYDo2zoPPJwvE05eDbetGXPyDg6DTMJ1fXux7YIp0c=; b=UlyizPwBmTK3yfDrRhgEPvwfAD7xr4r2dlnhy+tKCROibOQ4OJydfFmK+cyNsM/o/Z Dc/sPFGOK/HfnRDDplVMc8Tt9mI/D1MDHNEhxuWVbOdlVZ8mSfqjnSuPvVURxUDR4Vff 3dUv9EeRqA+gNWAieYxHc1/v6xJj9TZClPlGJVOuY682ryoYyf09Hrx3azNz7ok3aMnK 6lK/iUa/S5pM2/PaTSQaNchOy9svJ68lKOTFV9/rNUObBdOlBF7A0taT3c/WaTQ55AD4 Yy+4GAff64fXJ8idsallZvqJY9CW0/BxjZ+D+6dBwj74GAYFts1w/wC+4h4rqVDmfgLD Xu7g== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.150.2 with SMTP id w2mr12680787bkv.101.1338480349390; Thu, 31 May 2012 09:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.64.200 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2012 09:05:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:05:49 -0400 Message-ID: From: Oscar Hodgson To: Kaya Saman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:05:51 -0000 That helps. Thank you. 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 ). Solaris is not a viable option. 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. Is there anything like a list of "supported" (known good) SAS HBA's? Oscar On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kaya Saman 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. > > As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11 > > > All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of ZFS but still..... > > > At work we're looking into getting a StorEdge appliance wich will > handle up to 140+ TB. > > > 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..... > > > Regards, > > > Kaya > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Oscar Hodgson = wrote: >> The subject is pretty much the question. =A0Perhaps there's a better >> place to be asking this question ... >> >> We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD >> pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays >> with ZFS. =A0In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications >> of people actually doing this. =A0External JBODs would be running 24 to >> 48TB each, roughly. =A0There would be a couple of units. =A0The pizza >> boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have >> 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. >> >> Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability. =A0I've set >> up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for >> other tasks here, and those have been successful so far. >> >> Observations would be appreciated. >> >> 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"