SAN or Homebrew ZFS Box?

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DigitalDaz

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I'm going to be using some shared storage for 3 x Proxmox boxes, 2xE5-2650 192GB RAM each.

I have a Dell Equallogic PS6000E with 16 x 1TB SATA or I can have a homebrew ZFS box with E3-1245v2 32GB RAM 8x2TB SATA and a STEC slog device.

Which would you go for?
 
While I love Equallogic (started using them before Dell bought them!), for home use you'd be crazy to not just homebrew a ZFS box.

I still don't think Equallogic does data integrity checksumming like ZFS, for instance. But I could be wrong and man Dell's site on Equallogic sucks trying to verify such details. No I don't want to call and get the hard sell from you guys - sheesh.
 
I would do the ZFS solution, I have been using ZFS since the engineering samples of the Sun Thumper and we have NEVER had a dataloss with it and some of our original vdev's have been expanded from 6x250gb drive sizes all the way to 7 vdev's with each vdev using 6x8tb drives.
 
DocNo said:
While I love Equallogic (started using them before Dell bought them!), for home use you'd be crazy to not just homebrew a ZFS box.

I still don't think Equallogic does data integrity checksumming like ZFS, for instance. But I could be wrong and man Dell's site on Equallogic sucks trying to verify such details. No I don't want to call and get the hard sell from you guys - sheesh.
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Its datacenter, not home use. I did have a dig around for the checksumming that I though may be on the Equallogic but I cannot find it either.
 
VRT said:
I would do the ZFS solution, I have been using ZFS since the engineering samples of the Sun Thumper and we have NEVER had a dataloss with it and some of our original vdev's have been expanded from 6x250gb drive sizes all the way to 7 vdev's with each vdev using 6x8tb drives.
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I'm very much leaning toward the ZFS solution, the one problem i have had though and thats when using M1015s is I cannot get it to light up the bad drive, ie, its difficult to identify failed drives.
 
You can use dd to identify a disk.
In napp-it I use sas2ircu from LSI to create a disk map and to switch on/off the red alert led on a backplane.

Simple solution is to write down the wwn when you insert a disk.
 
_Gea said:
You can use dd to identify a disk.
In napp-it I use sas2ircu from LSI to create a disk map and to switch on/off the red alert led on a backplane.

Simple solution is to write down the wwn when you insert a disk.
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Thanks, I will probably use napp-it anyway if I go for ZFS solution
 
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