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    noob Nexenta & ZIL (ZFS) questions

    Sorry for the Necro Posting, but I wanted to chime in how ridiculous it is that NexentaStor is marketed as enterprise class storage on commodity hardware.. and then basically the only ZIL anyone seems to suggest using (with a high degree of faith) is a $2,500 dollar STEC drive. Which isn't...
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    The partners are getting me better deals (by 20% ish).. problem is it's just not enough. I even considered buying the RAM and hard drives outside of Dell since there's some massive markup on those and the pricing still just doesn't fall in where I need it to be. (We're still talking $1k...
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    I live and work really REALLY close to Dell WHQ. I have friends who are in sales and I've tried to get them to get Dell to pry their death grip off pricing for us. So far they managed to knock an additional $250 off web pricing, which I'm already beating out going through a channel partner...
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    I got one vendor to knock down the Dell I was trying to buy down another $700ish. It's still a full grand over the whitebox solution for nearly identical hardware and support (3yr/NBD parts). I always hear the folks that say their rep at Dell beats any whitebox pricing.. but I've yet to find...
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    But it is _YOUR_ problem, regardless of the vendor because Dell's going to pass the buck to VMWare, and VMWare is going to pass the buck to Dell (or LSI if it's a PERC card).. and so on. I've played this game many times before.
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    Ok you have me there about decoding error strings, but I guarantee you that your first call to HP or Dell or whomever isn't gonna get you anyone who even knows what you're talking about. I've endured Dell's "Support" before.. and I'd rather not have to endure it again.
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    Can you elaborate? I mean if everything is HCL qualified what's the issue? Hardware on the server isn't going to be tossed out every 2 years in favor of a new board+chip due to having to chase down HCL approved components. I live 3 miles from Dell WHQ, and work 1.5 miles from WHQ and I've...
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    Yeah it would be production, eventually. That's more or less what I thought re: HCL. But what's wrong with whiteboxing if the components are on the HCL? I find the hardware more flexible than say, Dell. Not to mention weird vendor lock-ins on RAID cards and hard disks that sometimes are...
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    Backup Exec 2010 Vmwawre Agent

    I used the AVVI agent and ran into a shit ton of issues as well. A Veeam rep got ahold of me and gave me a free license because I was harping on the Symantec forums about how much more Veeam can do for less. (Dedupe/Granular restores etc) without extra licensing.
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    vSphere 4.1 HCL + SuperMicro

    I'm generally a whitebox server sort of guy. I'm in a bit of a quandary I was wondering if anyone could help me decipher. I was putting together a box via Silicon Mechanics, they list it under their "Virtualization Servers", so naturally I assumed it was on the HCL. Turns out the board in...
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    ZFS - Indexing

    True, but a ZFS backend on an iSCSI ZVOL isn't much good. It just keeps the blocks in-check on the ZFS side. It doesn't help with corruption or data issues within the ZVOL (unfortunately). So it's not a great solution.
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    You'll be wasting a perfectly good RAID card for ZFS. Sure you can set the disks in JBOD but you'd be better off (IMHO) with a 'simple' HBA.
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    3 or 4 HDDs in RaidZ1?

    Ok you're contradicting yourself. Above you say "optimal" config for 4K disks is: But then you're saying that vdev size is not factored by sector size. So which is it? Then you also go on to say that generally smaller vdev groups are ideal but then suggest up to 18 disks (16 disks + 2 parity)...
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    3 or 4 HDDs in RaidZ1?

    You didn't say RAIDZ1 or 2? From what the Wiki states, anything between 3 and 9 per vdev is acceptable.
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    3 or 4 HDDs in RaidZ1?

    I thought 512b drives had a similar "optimal" configuration not dissimilar of the 128 / N suggested here. The ZFS Tuning wiki doesn't seem to make the distinction on of which drive (sector wise) fit into the "optimal" config that I can see.
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