Hi All, I stumbled on Solaris after talking to my CEO about the server I was setting up and his eyes got all big and he started going on about Solaris and ZFS. I'm experienced with Unix and Linux so I have some idea of what is going to go into this but I've already tried building my file server on Redhat, a couple custom fileserver distros and finally Windows Server 2003 (raid5) and wasn't happy with the performance of any of them. In the end I broke down and went to Frys and got a NAS enclosure :p
So, Solaris, this post is essentially asking for any obvious suggestions or pointing out pitfalls I may be getting myself into, just a nudge in the right direction. Later I'm sure there will be more direct questions :) Here is the vision: -Solaris 10 running software RAID/ZFS2 managing 8 drives at first with room for expansion -I'm under the impression that ZFS2 is similar to RAID6. -Couple other smaller mount points on IDE -All it needs to do is serve files to a windows machine (SMB). The hardware: -I have a 4U rack case which I plan on jamming full of discs, a mini-ATX board (4xSATAII ports) and a PCIe 8x Raid card (8xSATAII ports). -Solaris will run on a 60GB IDE drive -I'm putting 8x500GB SataII drives on the Raid card as JBOD so Solaris can manage the discs in ZFS2 -Likely add 2x750GB SataII drives on the motherboard's sata ports shortly. Thanks! Sam This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
