From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 15:38:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A721065670 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 15:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qc0-f182.google.com (mail-qc0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DECC8FC08 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 15:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcsg15 with SMTP id g15so728157qcs.13 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 08:38:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AWR+Cm358sDbJgBGJEgYf6N+EfavhYXZs0TewrE8ClM=; b=MBgAEK9851TIISbKyvVrZUuaosp7OkUrOsN6hw8s1p6x8vyPPAb/pmUJRiY0hyJHD0 il2kj/SaScSfTmF5kFqlaFa6F5l77fQBHUwfcCjo+ZKHJP8LmuHK99oqVe9UiOKs0Bwd KHch0npuDbalxVg8AsDtCbA7pKyL0iDhRgY/uKxDeDgnAj9P/mrhDFYl8wnMXXiOtN+r +NGC+IAvubZ5XZei3oiq6BWwhWAQHSIUS5wlF87zw8UJYepNC1LaAyh6rK+rACVl4KvK kzJtT6US0ghOosKmomnVj/kh+CYjiyf6vIA9wb4aMzi2TOJ1HNSW9HiCQJfUCPIhPo7R f8Ew== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.188.140 with SMTP id da12mr520687qab.42.1338478731676; Thu, 31 May 2012 08:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.26.136 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2012 08:38:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:38:51 +0100 Message-ID: From: Kaya Saman To: Oscar Hodgson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:38:58 -0000 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 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"