From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 8 19:49:30 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8782C996C89 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:49:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-yk0-x235.google.com (mail-yk0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c07::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E2D91A5F for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: by ykeo3 with SMTP id o3so96802079yke.0 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:49:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bsd.com.br; s=capeta; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=fWhEGNy9La64C2pd80ncU7KnBk6anSrDb2PaxbM9xlw=; b=DPmIZ7S0e5FvC3CX33OXgrQd1yv7iVFCOdZWHu+us/VyHq4Yf5GpZ7wLFgqW5UNDzx TNXJevTojYC2+YC5uA2P+eTFVrqAk0SG4w2fRbXP8eKbJPj16XgVSQz1ZAxbo+tYBDct MWH07tMsEiYFHsMYsNeTuEmtg+mTnrCRsl5YI= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=fWhEGNy9La64C2pd80ncU7KnBk6anSrDb2PaxbM9xlw=; b=Lib/ZyJb0aL2ohTNv8Tj7un4TD4DzRI+KM0yG44tobUe+A++/qd5T2bzjZz83ux+Qh /ZX1Ti40SSIW8oWfSGI/C8Cet/dnuBRAdUFtpKNMmH4AoVCLcrvzcbYezADd6zpiUbU+ ZA2YbthYjJAGfgUHu3cUIjwXjNa0b+xHPwXh8d0XGb6q1YKPbxq80RrSfIRaRL4nmJM/ Wr3qwoQmNRIfYm4ZnTveaQg7y9VxfCK2yASknZD9GH8xE2V1r5MHFuQ8bnnssdwu/TI6 vCDSg7LDp28BAlbSVF2QHPfvGnTygKOnF4LZmujACOn3Z495tYlLwtVwZpHKvI4Fu0gg lfJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkr9ydeAh+1I0FzH/6qDpowbleYeAN+m7MHkjOZrptHW77hWFwt+7MGraDTSbwvIx7WuNDD MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.129.136.67 with SMTP id y64mr12732739ywf.33.1436384968958; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.13.193.194 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 12:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 16:49:28 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Gmirror/graid or hardware raid? From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:49:30 -0000 Hi; I'm building a server that is going to host VMs for a small e-commerce site. It's mainly going to be used for testing new solutions/improving the current site (on the cloud at this moment) but in the medium to long run, the idea is to hold the production site in it. Since I don't have any experience in running VMs for e-commerce, I don't know for sure if my plan is correct or even feasible. I want to use FBSD 10 as the host OS and the VMs will run under Virtual Box. It should be a Dell 430 server (or IBM equivalent) CPU Xeon E5-2630 with 4 2T SATA HDs/16 G Ram/ RAID PERC H730 controller (supported by mrsas). All VMs will run FBSD also with usual Apache/php/Mysql combination. I really would welcome suggestions/opinions on what would be the most efficient way to set up those HDs to hold these virtual disks. I thought about zfs but I won't have lots of RAM avaliable. Should I use the controller raid? Gmirror/Graid? What raid level? Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)