Yes, I knew Dan had an answer to this one. ;-) You'll see his name on http://zfsday.com/speaker-list/ , talk summaries should start going up this week.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using Solarish platforms for my home server for the past four > years > on the same piece of 2006-era HW. Start by looking here: > > > http://kebesays.blogspot.com/2008/03/kebes-home-data-center-or-fbarts-new.html > > And realize now that I've upgraded/changed things as follows: > > - OS was in-development Nevada or OpenSolaris, but it's now OpenIndiana. > > - Only two physical NICs are in use, external and internal. Each internal > zone gets a VNIC off of the internal NIC. > > - Now 4GB of ECC RAM. > > - Two 750s have been replaced with two 2TBs, and I now have a 64GB SSD root > disk partitioned as: > > 52GB rpool > 4GB swap/dump > 4GB ZIL/slog > > (I probably overprovisioned that ZIL, but what the hell!) > > - The webserver zone (which thinks it's attached to the Internet) now > serves > as an internal DNS server. > > - The router zone (which knows the entire internal network topology) now > also > serves as an internal DHCP server. > > - I've added a third non-router zone, specifically so I can access my work > network without having to power up my work-issued machine. > > Funny you mention Minecraft, as my daughters are trying to convince me to > run > a Minecraft server. I'll probably dedicate a zone just to that if I do so, > instead of, say overloading my web-server zone. > > I've never migrated off another platform, so someone else will have to help > you through the perils of migration, if any. My router forwards packets > to/from a 35Mbit/sec bidirectional link, without much trouble. I think my > machine is overpowered, and if I were to build it fresh today, I'd go with > something low-wattage, as long as it would support VT-x so I could exploit > KVM if need be. > > As for older clients, I can't speak to Windows: I'm a Windows-free > household. > There are CIFS people who hang out here who can speak to it more, but from > what I understand the basics work really well. I can say that my one PPC > Mac > running OS X 10.4 needs to use "Connect To Server:" to access NFS, but once > that happens, bits seem to move okay. I don't use my PPC mac much anymore, > and starting with MacOS 10.6, NFS + automounter == crazy delicious. > > I actually plan on talking about this setup (and a similar one we use at > Nexenta's Lowell office) at Illumos Day in October. > > Hope this helps, > Dan > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175496-e0a8025a > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan Community Architect, SmartOS illumos Community Manager cell 720 371 4107 ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
