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    Help building cheap ESXi host.

    Thanks for the replies. Let me start with the important part directly related to my post. To be honest, I'm not sure yet what will all run on this machine. It basically started because I need a place to install software for inventory management, alerting, and helpdesk. I use Spiceworks (sure...
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    Help building cheap ESXi host.

    How about an R610? Seems pretty similar to the C1100.
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    Help building cheap ESXi host.

    Yea that is something I've been looking at. I just suck at buying used on ebay. Looking at the r710 it looks like they have either Dual Xeon 56XX or 55XX. Dual 55XX benchmark pretty poorly though. Would both of those be better than a single E3-1230v3? Obviously it won't run as efficiently. I...
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    Help building cheap ESXi host.

    Hello, I'm planning out a low cost ESXi 5.5 host for a production environment. I won't be running a TON of busy VM's or anything but I'd like the datastore to be somewhat protected. I don't have access to any shared storage and the whole infrastructure at this location is soon to be...
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    Seagate 4TB Vs WD 3TB Red (can't decide)

    I concur on the Newegg shipments. I received 6 of the Seagate NAS drives and they were packaged in a foam container that segregate each drive in it's own slot (best analogy I can make is an egg carton for hard drives), wrapped in bubble wrap, inside a box (with other parts) filled with peanuts...
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    Yea, the more I'm reading the more I'm coming to that same consensus. I found THIS post over on the FreeNAS forums helpful. I guess, if nothing appears "wrong" then I should assume things are good. I wanted to use something more advanced then a dd to see actual disk performance minus the...
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    What about -U ? iozone.org/docs
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    Blah. See, I was trying to avoid the buffer cache with the -I. What would be the recommended way to avoid cache if -I doesn't work?
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    Yes. Although I can't remember if I ran tests before or after altering loader.conf and sysctl.conf. I let autotune change a few things via the FreeNAS GUI. sysctl.conf kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=2097152 net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=2097152 loader.conf...
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    1 x RaidZ2 vdev, as mentioned in the initial post. [root@freenas] ~# zpool status pool: store state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM store...
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    I did another iozone test. iozone -a -I -b iozone.xls From my understanding -I should avoid the buffer cache. Results seem high, but maybe I'm interpreting the results incorrectly. Anybody? Download excel file since it won't format correctly in CODE. iozone -a -I...
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    Performance Tests, thoughts?

    Hello everyone. I've done some testing on my new ZFS build. Since I'm not as well versed in ZFS as many others here, I'd like to get some thoughts. System Hardware Specs 1 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz 1 x ASRock Z87E-ITX 2 x 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600 6 x Seagate 4TB NAS...
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    Storage Server: If it were you

    Ah, ok. When people start talking about applications I start to wonder since from what I know Solaris runs pretty much anything I can think of. MySQL, OpenVPN, nginx/apache/etc., bitTorrent (transmission), etc.. It just seems like this shouldn't really be an issue. It does seems like, although...
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    Storage Server: If it were you

    Not to derail the thread, but it seems the general consensuses is that Solaris based systems are the way to go over FreeBSD. I already know the history and lineage of these systems and how they relate to ZFS. As of today, the illumos based options (OmniOS) aren't really providing a more...
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    Little help with 6 disk ZFS configuration

    I think I'm going to go with the raidz2 setup. I might throw both together quickly and do some testing though. I really don't expect much load. I expect most of the use will be people pulling down shared documents that they need to fill out. Although I'm sure a 3 x 2-way mirror would perform...
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