Morning, Apologies for the basic question but I just want to make sure. I have been looking at storage systems like this one http://www.icc-usa.com/storage-35-2u.asp. I am guessing it would be a case of sorting the discs out, probably on some GUI or command line for the box it self, then using a FreeBSD box I can set up ZFS over the drives...or is it not that simple? Thanks Chris
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33:49AM +0100, Michal wrote:> Apologies for the basic question but I just want to make sure. I have > been looking at storage systems like this one > http://www.icc-usa.com/storage-35-2u.asp. I am guessing it would be a > case of sorting the discs out, probably on some GUI or command line for > the box it self, then using a FreeBSD box I can set up ZFS over the > drives...or is it not that simple?You say "using a FreeBSD box I can set up ZFS over the drives...", which doesn't make sense, if I undestand the ICC system. The device appears to be an NAS system, with an OS, not an external disk bay. What you would want, I think, is either a) an external FCAL or iSCSI box that you could connect to another machine (running FreeBSD or some other OS); or b) a 'storage' server upon which to install FreeBSD and use as a NAS system. It may be that the ICC system can export the drives, but it seems like an unnecessary complication. -- greg byshenk - gbyshenk@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL
> It would be even better to simply ask them what exact Supermicro > hardware (specifically, model numbers) they're using to build these > systems. You can see Supermicro mentioned in the<title> of their site, > so that's definitely what they're using, even down to the controller > card offerings (some of which (Marvell) are known to behave oddly on > FreeBSD (yes there are success stories, but there are also follow-up > horror stories) -- consider yourself warned). >I think the best option is to just build it your self using similar components which I have looked at before. My ideal is build a system where you can extend the storage easily by adding another box instead of either replacing the HDD's with bigger HDD's or having multiple targets for the data. One target whose storage can be expanded by simply adding another box. However, that is harder in practice to work out