Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:14:07 +0000 From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com>, "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestion for hardware for ZFS fileserver Message-ID: <YQBPR01MB0388DCF5C4AB621918117320DDA00@YQBPR01MB0388.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> In-Reply-To: <CAEW%2BogZnWC07OCSuzO7E4TeYGr1E9BARKSKEh9ELCL9Zc4YY3w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEW%2BogZnWC07OCSuzO7E4TeYGr1E9BARKSKEh9ELCL9Zc4YY3w@mail.gmail.com>
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Sami Halabi wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm planning on building a machine for fileserver using ZFS (still
>considering vanilla FreeBSD VS FreeNAS).
>
>I would like to get recommendation for good and working hardware.
>I have 2 setups I'm interested in getting your help for each.
>1. Heavy load machine with 10G connection.
>2. Light machine with 1G connection.
>
>Both setups will have up to 22 SAS hard drives 2T each + 2 SSD for L2ARC.
>For both setups I would appreciate your help in:
>1. For raidz2 best strip of vdevs for maximum capacity with reasonable
>performance.
>2. Hardware recommendations in terms of:
>CPU
>MEMORY
>HBA
>Sas expander for future connecting Jbod
>Server (aka my own build VS brand one like HP/Dell.. Etc).
You didn't mention net interface. You'll want ones with good FreeBSD driver
support, including good TSO support. I can't suggest specific choices, sinc=
e
I don't have experience with any of them.
I'll leave the rest to folk that are ZFS savy.
You might want to look at iXsystems offerings, since they test FreeNAS all =
the time.
(I have and have never worked for iXsystems, nor been a customer. I just kn=
ow that
they configure their hardware for FreeNAS.)
Good luck with it, rick
ps: If you choose vanilla FreeBSD, there are a bunch of tunables for the NF=
S server
that default to very small values. Post if/when you get to that stage=
for
suggestions.
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