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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    Thanks for everyone's help, I've decided to order part of the system (partially as proof of concept, partially so it's a smaller initial outlay). Will be ordering 12x16GB sticks of RAM, 1x hex core CPU, 11x 1TB 7.2K RPM drives, 1x ZeusRAM. I'll be using as file storage, and doing some...
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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    Right, last post (think I've tied this down now to give me best cost/performance/space with expansion possibilities) Go for 24x 26GB sticks in head (so 384GB RAM), do away with both L2ARC ZeusIOPs initially (see how ARC assists and whether normal working set spills over greatly), go for 11x...
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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    Not all clients will be doing audio/video at same time, most will be doc editing. I'd reckon between 30 and 60 on audio/video, talking MP4 format, not massive demands. Rest of access will mainly be office documents. In an educational setting, so budgets tight, and demands high :/ Just trying to...
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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    Thanks for the info patrockdk. Will leave Dedupe off in general, and maybe enable it on certain folders (like our student user space, which is likely to contain lots of duplicates and will have very regular, short time spaced snapshots, so snapshots should be quite small and removal shouldn't...
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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    I thought dedupe was only really problematic if you have small amounts of RAM and little processing power... neither of which should be an issue here. Will consider extra RAM and remove 1x L2ARC, any comments on second L2ARC and which pool it should go on, or pool structure considering staying...
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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    Thanks, I'll look at those - I should be able to get away with SATA for those as they're on separate controller, shouldn't I? Just need to find ones to slot into the drive sleds successfully (mostly 2.5" SSDs now). I'll either go with 256GB or drop one L2ARC and up to 384GB RAM, dependent on...
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    New (first major) ZFS Build

    Just hoping someone can sanity check my spec. Looking to serve files (including video/audio media) to 300 clients, and NFS to (currently) 3 Xenserver hosts running 20 VMs across them (which is likely to increase) including an SCCM VM, and a web filtering box (which seems to do quite intensive...
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