Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:52:01 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD Message-ID: <C4577BCC84D24FFE97FD4036C2C4FB82@GRANT> References: <25A3192F31A344B99F50583BDC58C921@GRANT>
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Hi all, I am assuming by the lack of response, my question to too long winded, let me re-phrase: What kind of performance might I expect if I load FreeBSD 7.2 on a 24 disk, Dell PowerVault when its only mission is to serve as a local area storage unit (/home). Obviously, to store all users /home data. Throug an NFS connection via fast (100m/b) ethernet. Each connecting server (6) contain about 200 domains? -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:35 AM Subject: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD > Hi all, > > Up to this point, all of our servers are standalone, i.e. all services and > software required are installed on each local server. > > Apache, Exim, vm-pop3d, Mysql, etc etc. > > Each local server is connected to the Inet via a VLAN (WAN), to our colo's > switch. > > Each server contains about 300 domains, each domain has its own IP. > > Each sever is also connected to a VLAN (LAN) via the same (Dell 48 Port > managed switch). > > We have been considering consolidating all users data from each server to > a central (local), storage unit. > > While I do have active nfs's running (for backups etc), on the LAN only, I > have never attempted to create 1 mass storage unit. > > So I suppose the questions are: > > 1) Is there any specific hardware that anyone might reccommend? I want to > stick with FreeBSD as the OS as I am quite comfortable admining it, > > 2) Would anyone reccomend NOT using FreeBSD? Why? > > 3) Assuming I am using FreeBSD as the storage systems OS, could NFS simply > be used? > > 4) Considering out whole Inet traffic runs about 2 Mb/s, is there any > reason the port to the Storage unit should be more than 100 M/b (would it > be imparative to use 1 G/b transfer)? > > TIA, > > -Grant > > _______________________________________________ > 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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