lists at di.cx
2010-Feb-24 10:57 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Recommendations required for home file server config
Hi all, (Posting via email due to my forum account being marked inactive!) So i''m re-visiting OpenSolaris and ZFS. Context is my old file server died (Windows 2008 with 4 drives on an Intel Matrix ICH9 controller in RAID 5) and i''m moving into a new house and want to build something new and flashy. I want to use up the old hardware I have laying about rather than sell it all for a loss and buy new (relating mainly to disks here). I have the following hardware laying about: Intel 3200SH Server board + E7200 CPU. 4GB RAM. 2 x SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controllers (so 16 ports in total, plus 6 on the motherboard) Disks: 3x40GB, 1x250GB, 4x500GB, 4x1TB and looking to buy some 2TB disks to fill the gap (unless advised against here) My storage requirement is as follows: Personal/Business Documents - 100GB+ - Medium performance - High resiliency VMWare storage (for virtual disks) - 200GB+ - High performance - High resiliency Various Media - 2TB+ - Medium performance - Medium resiliency So with the hardware I have available to me, this is first-glance config I see viable: 2x40GB Mirror for boot/OS 4x500GB RaidZ2 (or higher?) for Docs + VMWare images Remaining disks configured RaidZ2 for all other storage Not sure what to do with the other disks, other than have a spare perhaps for OS I would appreciate any thoughts/opinions/configurations anyone would like to recommend for me. I am not adverse to buying some other disks if there are big advantages to adding say another 500 or something as a spare. I''m fairly open on this. I may have missed out some relevant information, so let me know if I need to fill in any gaps. Thanks in advance:
Daniel Carosone
2010-Feb-26 01:00 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Recommendations required for home file server config
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:57:08AM +0000, lists at di.cx wrote:> 2 x SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controllers (so 16 ports in total, > plus 6 on the motherboard)What about case space for the disks?> Disks: 3x40GBrpool mirror and spare on shelf. 3 way mirror if you really want and have the space.> 1x250GBsingle pool, scratch space and adhoc backups, or hurl it at the invading barbarian horde, as you prefer.> 4x500GB2+2 mirror, one mirror side on each AOC card, for vm images and documents.> 4x1TBbuy 2 more, 6-way raidz2 for misc media, 3 ports each per AOC. do automated regular send|recv of the 4x500 pool onto this one as backup.> and looking to buy some 2TB disks to fill the gap (unless advised against here)hold off on these. when you need future expansion, get 6 of whatever disk makes sense at the time. you have 6 ports left on your AOCs, so you can add a second 6-way raidz2 vdev to the above pool, or upgrade-in-place the 1Tb drives in that pool. This leaves you 3 or 4 motherboard ports (depending what you do with the 250) to use for zil or l2arc ssd''s. This, or more RAM if the m/b will take it, is a better use of your cash now. -- Dan. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100226/3826751c/attachment.bin>