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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Thanks, kac77. I'll re-work the math on the cams and see what the options for the stream I'm receiving are. I think the general guideline they gave me was h.264, medium/good resolution, and 7 fps with the motion sensors turned off....constantly recording 24x7. I don't have a lot of control...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Thanks, Will. I love EMCs VNX SAN, however, I'm thinking the Isilon stuff is going to be too much of an initial investment to get into. Maybe I should call our rep again & see what they have to say knowing the plan to scale out this large. Do you have a ballpark for what the 750TB cost...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Sorry, let me clarify a little more on the total setup. For the front ends: Possible NAS storage, or VMWare datastore to allow a cheaper storage solution than my "fast" 15k SAS EMC disks. This isn't priority, but it's a possibility in the future. I'm moving to a tiered setup next week on...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Thanks, spazoid. Looks like I need to read up a bit more on how the RAM / L2ARC is utilized. I understand the tiering concept and how data is made more available via those mediums, but I'm still not 100% clear on how much RAM is leveraged during the write process. Is there a better...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Thanks! That's crazy! I'm worried that the 512GB RAM limit might be a problem? I'm basing that off of the "use 1GB of RAM per terabyte of storage" guideline that I've run across a few times. Am I correct that I could make up the difference by using the 2U controller setup you recommended...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    I had tossed this idea around, but hadn't drawn it up / priced it out yet. I'll get on that today & post an updated BOM. Thanks for the JBOD clarification. I actually came across this JBOD last night & put it on my BOM. I've been designing based off 3TB SAS drives, but I'll price out the...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    I've thought about that, but for what we're doing I think the risk is minimal. Of course, that could change but for now it isn't quite there. If I'm reading the Solaris 11 documentation correctly, I can do a Cluster with ZFS to have failover capability between 2 controllers. While it won't...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Thanks for the reply, _Gea! I'll take "crazy" as a compliment! I'm lucky here, that really the only thing is to ensure uptime within an SLA, whatever we make that. Ideally, up 24/7, but price is a concern there at least for the beginning. This, I understand. I've already priced out 2TB...
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    ZFS Hardware for Petabyte and larger

    Hey Everyone, I've been tasked at work to come up with a plan to build a scallable storage solution on the cheap. This is to store backup data, as well as to provide storage for things such as security camera video feeds. I'm leaning towards a Solaris 11 / ZFS server with 10Gbps Ethernet, but...
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