[pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
A customer/friend of mine needs a large (some 10 TByte) online storage. So far the optimal match looks like FreeNAS + zfs + RAID-Z, which is currently in pre-alpha (0.7 nightly builds). No firewall or VPN, though. IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavors, including a NAS appliance. Will the firewall and VPN functionality be retained, or was this to be a NAS-only flavor? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
With that amount of space, your probably better off building a separate NAS Server. The package hasn't been released or mentioned in awhile so i wouldn't hold your breath for it. All in one boxes are geared towards home use. Not enterprise storage. Adam Eugen Leitl wrote: A customer/friend of mine needs a large (some 10 TByte) online storage. So far the optimal match looks like FreeNAS + zfs + RAID-Z, which is currently in pre-alpha (0.7 nightly builds). No firewall or VPN, though. IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavors, including a NAS appliance. Will the firewall and VPN functionality be retained, or was this to be a NAS-only flavor? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1911 - Release Date: 1/23/2009 7:28 AM - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
Am 24.01.2009 um 11:13 schrieb Eugen Leitl: A customer/friend of mine needs a large (some 10 TByte) online storage. Ten TB? OpenSolaris 2008.11 That is, if you don't actually want go with one of SUN's new appliances. What financial value do these 10TB represent? Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:15:33AM -0500, apiase...@midatlanticbb.com wrote: With that amount of space, your probably better off building a separate NAS Server. The package hasn't been released or mentioned in awhile so i Ok, FreeNAS is it, then. Unfortunately the effort seems much smaller than pfSense, so I'm not sure zfs+RAID-Z will be well supported. wouldn't hold your breath for it. All in one boxes are geared towards home use. Not enterprise storage. It's basically just a power home user. He wants several globally distributed nodes for storage security. zfs, RAID-Z and Unison look like the best match, and since FreeNAS has a nice web admin interface it's a better match than OpenSolaris. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: Ten TB? Starting with about four, expandable to ten or higher. I've seen SuperMicro SATA boxes which take 12 hotplug SATA drives in 2U, twice that with 2.5 drives. Right now WD consumer TByte drives go for 80 EUR, RE3 for 130. I expect hardware is around 500-600 EUR. OpenSolaris 2008.11 I'll reserve that as an option of last resort, in case FreeNAS doesn't deliver. I know Sun, and I'm wary of their promises. That is, if you don't actually want go with one of SUN's new appliances. About one order of magnitude more expensive than what I need. 2 kEUR/box is well within the budget, 20 kEUR isn't. What financial value do these 10TB represent? It's a mix of personal and corporate data for a couple people. 2-3 redundant (loosely synched via unison over WAN), in case a box or location dies. Access via VPN (OpenVPN, probably). I should probably terminate the VPN tunnel on the pfSense, and put the end point and the FreeNAS on a private VLAN. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:55:37PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: Ten TB? Starting with about four, expandable to ten or higher. I've seen SuperMicro SATA boxes which take 12 hotplug SATA drives in 2U, twice that with 2.5 drives. Right now WD consumer TByte drives go for 80 EUR, RE3 for 130. I expect hardware is around 500-600 EUR. OpenSolaris 2008.11 I'll reserve that as an option of last resort, in case FreeNAS doesn't deliver. I know Sun, and I'm wary of their promises. We use a 5TB array (with 12 slots open) with Solaris (Nevada 104) and ZFS for our primary backup server. Works beautifully. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavors, Yes. including a NAS appliance. but no to that part. :) That's one thing that probably won't ever be added, at least not by any of our existing developers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
[pfSense-discussion] VOIP traffic shaping problems
I have a Trixbox VOIP PBX behind a pfSense v1.2.2. I'm having what I believe to be traffic shaping problems. Overview: We have a T-1, which tests to be about 1300/1300 kbps. Symptoms: When I download a large file and max our download speed, VOIP will garble. This is even with the traffic shaper turned on and setup via the wizard. Whats even more strange is that ping latency to the INTERNAL interface of the pfSense from an internal machine jumps significantly when are large download is running. Can anyone explain this behavior or how it can be resolved? I need the VOIP calls to remain smooth for their duration, no matter what load users attempt to put on the WAN connection. Thanks. Joe LaGreca Founder Owner, BIG Net Online 619-393-1733 x200 Office 619-318-3246 Cell www.BIGnetOnline.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
OpenFiler would be a great option. I'm running 6TB on one server with MS Exchange and SQL over iSCSI without issue. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavors, Yes. including a NAS appliance. but no to that part. :) That's one thing that probably won't ever be added, at least not by any of our existing developers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS
I love Freenas, however if he is going for home use check into UN-RAID by lime-technology. THere are things that i do not like about it the lack of features, but really i didn't need anything more than a windows share. However being able to resize a raid 5 array is awesome..ZFS doesnt allow for that yet (fingers crossed) I havent noticed any performance issues with UN-RAID i have a few vm drives on there and various media files. however only a handfull of machines are accesing it currently. my $.02 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Curtis LaMasters curtislamast...@gmail.com wrote: OpenFiler would be a great option. I'm running 6TB on one server with MS Exchange and SQL over iSCSI without issue. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavors, Yes. including a NAS appliance. but no to that part. :) That's one thing that probably won't ever be added, at least not by any of our existing developers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
