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    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    Hoping the hive mind could help me do a sanity check on the disc performance numbers I'm seeing from my new build before I begin migrating data. Here are the build specs: System Components: AIC RSC-4EG2 Chassis w/ BKP-SAS3-12EG-R Backplanes Supermicro X9SRL-F-O Motherboard Intel Xeon 2.4GHz...
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    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    Super observant of you and I think you may be on the right track. I tried booting that ESXi 4.1 box with ESXi 5.1 and it happily finds the COMSTAR lun using the vmware iSCSI Software Adapter. Is anyone aware of issues between the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 and COMSTAR? The same HBAs seem...
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    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    I've spent the whole day fighting with COMSTAR and ESXi 5.1. I'm really hoping someone can help. Here's the what I've done: Created a zfs volume Created a COMSTAR lu from said volume Created a COMSTAR target Created a COMSTAR view for said lu (visible to everyone on all interfaces)...
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    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    This is fantastic information for someone just starting out with OpenIndiana (like me). Thanks so much!
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    24 Disk ZFS Pool Config Recommendations Needed

    In my previous post, am I correct in thinking I'd still want to utilize RAID10 and a hot-spare with an SSD based VM Pool or could I get comparable performance to my SAS + L2ARC + ZIL config with an SSD RAIDZ-1 and a hot-spare?
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    24 Disk ZFS Pool Config Recommendations Needed

    A very fair point. To the question of how much space we're talking about I guess I'd be most comfortable with somewhere in the neighborhood of 2TB minimum usable for the VM Pool. That would give me plenty of room to grow up to 30 VMs (if the need should arise) @ ~66GB/VM average. To achieve...
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    24 Disk ZFS Pool Config Recommendations Needed

    Those assumptions are correct. The media pool would not have many simultaneous users and the number of smaller files would be relatively few (photos, documents, etc). The media pool may, however, occasionally be asked to do large sequential writes while doing large sequential reads (remuxing...
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    24 Disk ZFS Pool Config Recommendations Needed

    Thinking along the line of separate pools I came up with the following: VM Pool: 6 Disk SAS Striped Triple Mirror, 1 Disk SSD L2ARC, 2 Disk SSD ZIL Mirror, 1 Disk SAS hot-spare Media Pool: 14 Disk SATA RAIDZ-3 Am I correct in thinking that if I later wanted more space for the VM Pool...
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    24 Disk ZFS Pool Config Recommendations Needed

    I should have mentioned that this is not an all-in-one setup, the VMs will be running on separate servers. (I'll update the original post to reflect this) I had thought about separating the pools for file share and VMs but was shying away because of the extra ZIL/L2ARC disk requirements. Not...
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    24 Disk ZFS Pool Config Recommendations Needed

    I'm in the process of building my new NAS and have 24 hot-swap bays to utilize for my ZFS pool(s) as well as two additional bays on the chassis rear for OS drives. The NAS will serve large file content (movies and music) as well as host around 15-20 VMs via iSCSI. A couple of the VMs will...
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    Home NAS/SAN Build Recommendations

    I've now purchased the following hardware: 1x - AIC RSC-4EG2 4U 24 Bay Chassis 2x - IBM 46M0861 xSeries ServeRAID M1015 SAS/Sata Controllers And I'm considering the following additional components: 1x - Supermicro X9SRL-F Motherboard 1x - Intel Xeon E5 2620 2GHz CPU 1x - Kingston 64GB (4 x...
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    SAS Controller & Expander Questions

    Thanks so much for the info guys. My two M1015s will be coming soon so I should be able to take full advantage of the dual port bonding configuration. Assuming the bonded configuration I would end up with eight 3Gb/s lanes per backplane (or 2Gb/sec/drive) of available bandwidth correct?
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    SAS Controller & Expander Questions

    Awesome, I just ordered a pair of M1015s so I'll try connecting both ports of each to a single backplane as you suggest. Thanks for the info! Thanks Dalfo002, just wanted to confirm. :)
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    SAS Controller & Expander Questions

    Here are some photos I took as well if this will help anyone with a definitive connector identification or to help me confirm that the backplane is indeed a BKP-SAS3-12EG-R. Thanks.
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    SAS Controller & Expander Questions

    Dalfo002, Thanks so much for the reply. I'm relatively sure the whitepaper is the correct one. I know the chassis is a RSC-4EG2 and according to the parts list there are only 5 available backplanes (only one of which is a 12-in-1). Additionally, the diagram in the white paper appears to be...
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