Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Ian D
Another question: all those disks are on Dell MD1000 JBODs (11 of them) and we have 12 SAS ports on three LSI 9200-16e HBAs. Is there any point connecting each JBOD on a separate port or is it ok cascading them in groups of three? Is there a bandwidth limit we'll be hitting doing that?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Ian D rewar...@hotmail.com wrote: Another question: all those disks are on Dell MD1000 JBODs (11 of them) and we have 12 SAS ports on three LSI 9200-16e HBAs. Is there any point connecting each JBOD on a separate port or is it ok cascading them in groups of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Ian Collins
On 12/18/10 10:49 AM, Ian D wrote: I have 159x 15K RPM SAS drives I want to build a ZFS appliance with. 75x 145G 60x 300G 24x 600G The box has 4 CPUs, 256G of RAM, 14x 100G SLC SSDs for the cache and a mirrored pair of 4G DDRDrive X1s for the SLOG. My plan is to mirror all these drives and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Ian D
The answer really depends on what you want to do with pool(s). You'll have to provide more information. Get the maximum of very random IOPS I get can out of those drives for database usage. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ian D rewar...@hotmail.com wrote: The answer really depends on what you want to do with pool(s). You'll have to provide more information. Get the maximum of very random IOPS I get can out of those drives for database usage. -- Random IOPS won't max

[zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-17 Thread Ian D
I have 159x 15K RPM SAS drives I want to build a ZFS appliance with. 75x 145G 60x 300G 24x 600G The box has 4 CPUs, 256G of RAM, 14x 100G SLC SSDs for the cache and a mirrored pair of 4G DDRDrive X1s for the SLOG. My plan is to mirror all these drives and keep some hot spares. My question