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1000TB ZFS Build

What does playing BF3 have to do with this storage setup? Can you even play it on he OS they are using for this?
 
Isilon has been doing this for years, how is this a "first?"
 
It isn't a world first in terms of a petabyte of drives in a 42u RACK. However, it is a world first in terms of a highly redundant petabyte volume.
 
That video says storage space is 360 x 3tb drives, also pre-raid.
60 per 4U (although a few shots show what looks like 8 hdd enclosures not 6).

My point was that its not the first Petabyte in a rack. I'm sure any of the major storage vendors have been able to do that for a few years (if you paid enough). Aberdeen is just the first one to think of it as a marketing gimmick.
 
i know right, so stupid to try and sell storage at $500/TB nobody is buying storage these days ...
 
AMD_Gamer said:
What does playing BF3 have to do with this storage setup? Can you even play it on he OS they are using for this?
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I agree, that statement, even though a joke, didn't make much sense.
So you store everyone you want to play against in the server rack... lol wat? :D
 
Red Falcon said:
I agree, that statement, even though a joke, didn't make much sense.
So you store everyone you want to play against in the server rack... lol wat? :D
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Or just to store every install the game will have for players. :p

call me a noob but how do they get two servers to control the same drives with fail over??
 
magic, or, some sort of HAST/DRBD + zfs import.

part of the magic of ZFS is you can pull drives and move them and import them from a new machine. they're more or less doing that with 2 different san heads.

the only problem i see with this system is they have 8 SATA connections they need to make per head unit so at a minimum they're using 4 cards with dual external SAS. this leaves at most 3 PCI-e 4x slots on the motherboard for 10gbE. If you fill those with 10gbE then you're read cache is going to suffer from not using a fusionio type card but if you don't fill them with 10gbE then you're basically choking what would otherwise be an insanely fast SAN down to a max IO of 2.2GB/s of throughput.

now they may be hiding some 2.5" SSDs in those controller heads i didn't get a good look at them. hopefully they have 2 SLOGs and 4+ large SSDs for read caching thus freeing up those pci-e for more 10gbE. would be silly not to.
 
i guess it would have to be scrips then but if its automatic they still would have a problem with moving over sas control from one set of card in the first server to the other set, thats what i dont understand.

and if your paying half a mill on storage im sure you could afford some high end fiber links that are above that of 10gbe, but who knows :rolleyes:
 
Poplap said:
i guess it would have to be scrips then but if its automatic they still would have a problem with moving over sas control from one set of card in the first server to the other set, thats what i dont understand.

and if your paying half a mill on storage im sure you could afford some high end fiber links that are above that of 10gbe, but who knows :rolleyes:
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No, they would probably use Infiniband, much lower latencies and a hell of a lot cheaper.
 
Red Falcon said:
No, they would probably use Infiniband, much lower latencies and a hell of a lot cheaper.
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i guess i would depend on the usage, AFAIK Infiniband does not work for file sharing and storage but if it was being used in VM, DB i would see Infiniband being the better choice. I guess you could use Infiniband to another server for file sharing where you cloud fit a lot more 10gbe or fiber cards in it...
 
Red Falcon said:
No, they would probably use Infiniband, much lower latencies and a hell of a lot cheaper.
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cheaper? if you already have it installed maybe.

you can get 48 10gbE ports across 2 1U switches from supermicro for ~16kish. if you're white boxing storage like this chances are you're inclined to white box at least portions of your switch fabric. the nics are roughly the same cost for dual ports but the fabric they connect to isn't cheap ... unless you know something i dont in which case feel free to link away and learn me something.
 
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