Hi. I''m managing a HDS storage system which is slightly larger than 100 TB and we have used approx. 3/4. We use vxfs. The storage system is attached to a solaris 9 on sparc via a fiberswitch. The storage is shared via nfs to our webservers. If I was to replace vxfs with zfs I could utilize raidz(2) instead of the built-in hardware raid-controller. Are there any jbod-only storage systems that I can add in batches of 40-50 TB? The Sun Fire X4500 Server is not an option since it''s too small and it''s undesirable to mount from more than one nfs-server to gain access to the storage. Are there any practical upper limits of devices than can be attached to solaris 10 ie. 500 disks? If I went for the zfs-route I will create one large zpool and create zfs-partitions and let them grow to approx. 4 TB. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare.
> If I was to replace vxfs with zfs I could utilize > raidz(2) instead of > the built-in hardware raid-controller.If you are 99.95 ore more then think about it twice. ZFS still needs to solve a few bugs ...> Are there any jbod-only storage systems that I can > add in batches of > 40-50 TB?We are using a lot of EMC DAE2. Works well with ZFS. gino This message posted from opensolaris.org
Hello Gino,
Monday, May 14, 2007, 4:07:31 PM, you wrote:
G> We are using a lot of EMC DAE2. Works well with ZFS.
Without head units?
Dual-pathed connections to hosts + MPxIO?
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Hello Robert,> G> We are using a lot of EMC DAE2. Works well with > ZFS. > > Without head units?Yes. Just make sure to format disks to 512 bytes per sector if they are from EMC.> Dual-pathed connections to hosts + MPxIO?sure. Also we are using some Xyratex JBOD boxes. gino This message posted from opensolaris.org