Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:38:51 +0100 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? Message-ID: <CAPj0R5LwBkQbRvV_1MWbkNwEHOL=zCqXQt1o0pKbyipJmBUbig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> wr= ote: > 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.o= rg"
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