Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:05:49 -0400 From: Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> To: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? Message-ID: <CACxnZKOJHeQH3=T4X3Jd-F3hrgOrirrgypG5HbdfhtFhkcaFzA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPj0R5LwBkQbRvV_1MWbkNwEHOL=zCqXQt1o0pKbyipJmBUbig@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPj0R5LwBkQbRvV_1MWbkNwEHOL=zCqXQt1o0pKbyipJmBUbig@mail.gmail.com>
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That helps. Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable for this "business" (there's no ROI at the departmental level <g>). Solaris is not a viable option. FreeBSD looks like the next best available option at the moment, particularly considering the use of the storage heads as compute machines. OpenIndiana shows promise. Nexenta has a great product, but the user community expects more flexibility in software options. Is there anything like a list of "supported" (known good) SAS HBA's? Oscar On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> = wrote: >> 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.= org"
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