Ladies and gentlemen,
I am done hunting the parts to put this thing together. Everything is on it's way. Let me know what you think of this design and if there is anything I can do better.
Quick details on the rest of the box: Supermicro X9SCM-F-O w/ Xeon E3-1230 CPU. 16GB ECC UDIMM (4GB goes to Solaris VM). ESXi 5.
Some notes and questions thus far:
What do you guys think?
I am done hunting the parts to put this thing together. Everything is on it's way. Let me know what you think of this design and if there is anything I can do better.
Quick details on the rest of the box: Supermicro X9SCM-F-O w/ Xeon E3-1230 CPU. 16GB ECC UDIMM (4GB goes to Solaris VM). ESXi 5.
Code:
ITEM QTY DESCRIPTION
HBA 2 Dell SAS6/iR (LSI 1068e) flashed w/ LSI IT firmware
Boot 1 Boot device and primary datastore to hold Solaris: Cheap SATA drive
SAS 8 (4 mirror vdevs) (8x 73GB 2.5" SAS 10K). 292GB of fast SAS usable storage to store VMs, databases, etc.
NL 6 (1 RAIDZ vdev) (6x 2TB WD20EARX). 10TB of nearline usable storage.
ZIL 2 (1 mirror vdev) Transcend TS8GSSD25S-S 2.5" 8GB SATA II SLC Internal Solid State Drive
L2ARC 1 ADATA 500 Series AS592S-32GM-C 2.5" 32GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Some notes and questions thus far:
- Obviously the SAS/NL storage will be controlled by Solaris and shared back to ESXi
- Solaris will have 4GB RAM, so should I slice 2GB of the SSDs for ZIL? Or leave them at their full 8GB? I only ask because the general rule for ZIL is RAM-divided-by-2.
- I am going to try to divide the HBA's evenly for mirrored vdevs. One disk per pair will go to HBA0, the other to HBA1. This will provide somewhat fault tolerance. Seems like the right thing to do.
What do you guys think?