Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably cheaply if you look. I have six of these in various laces, all running ZFS and FreeBSD to perform various funcytions. Not sure about ECC memory support there though. Also theres only one expansion slot, which we ut 10 gig

recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Hi all, I am planning to use zfs appliance for backup purposes, do you have reccomenations for small box with 4-16 gb ram ecc, and 4 hard drives sas/sata. Thanks in advance, Sami ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

2017-08-18 17:11 GMT+08:00 Sami Halabi : > Hi all, > > I am planning to use zfs appliance for backup purposes, do you have > reccomenations for small box with 4-16 gb ram ecc, and 4 hard drives > sas/sata. > > Thanks in advance, > Sami > Take a look at iXsystems, they have

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Hi, all, > Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French : > The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably > cheaply [...] > Not sure about ECC memory support there though. They do support ECC, no problem. They are available with different CPU

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

* Outback Dingo wrote: Sorry but need to as do yo want some under powered atom system? or a core i3i7 cpu and 16 Gbs memoery, with 8 GB ports and 6 SATA ports in a small custom build. because thats exactly what we sell and we sell it for less the an XL by a few hundred bucs, less the

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

* Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French : The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably cheaply [...] Not sure about ECC memory support there though. They do support ECC, no problem. They are available with

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

> temperature sensor is somehow controlled by the raid controller. So enabling > JBOD technically works, but the machine is a lot louder than with enabled > raid. As a workaround I've built 4 raid arrays with one disk each. Upgrade the firmware. That fixed it for me - I run JBOD and the fanes

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Stefan Hagen wrote: > * Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >>> >>> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French : >>> The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably >>> cheaply [...] >>> Not

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

> Maybe the folk that made hardware suggestions can post which net > interface(s) they are using and whether they are seeing driver issues? The HP boxes have Broadcom ethernet controllers driven with the 'bge' driver, and thatw orks fine. I stick to Intel or Broadcom controllers for gigabit ether

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Hi all, > Am 18.08.2017 um 13:58 schrieb Pete French : > >> Maybe the folk that made hardware suggestions can post which net >> interface(s) they are using and whether they are seeing driver issues? > > The HP boxes have Broadcom ethernet controllers driven with the

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Hi! > Am 18.08.2017 um 14:03 schrieb Stefan Hagen : > > * Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >>> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French : >>> The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably >>> cheaply [...] >>> Not

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

The SuperMicro X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F or X10SDV-4C+-TLN4F have twin 10Gb Intel NIC and a twin 1Gb, 4 ports in total, plus a management one. Support 128GB ECC RDIMM in total or 64GB UDIMM. -- Rafal Lukawiecki > On 18 Aug 2017, at 12:58, Pete French wrote: > > The only 10

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Hi Stefan, > Am 18.08.2017 um 14:35 schrieb Stefan Hagen : >> What do you mean by "JBOD support"? Disable RAID in the systems BIOS >> setup, put ZFS on AHCI drives ... > > Activating JBOD deactivates the B120i raid controller. Unfortnately the > temperature

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >Hi, all, > >> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French : >> The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably >> cheaply [...] >> Not sure about ECC memory support there though. > >They do support ECC, no problem. >

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

I use FreeNAS on an old Gen7 HP MicroServer. It works well but jails are too slow and needing an upgrade. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is *not* (yet?) supported on HPE MicroServer Gen10, so you couldn't run FreeNAS on it, see my bug report here

Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Hi Patrick, * Patrick M. Hausen wrote: smbios.system.product="ProLiant MicroServer Gen8" CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz (2294.80-MHz K8-class CPU) 16 GB RAM, FreeBSD installation was no problem at all. You got me. I just double checked. 16GB is the limit. You're right.