I'm looking for some suggestions here - I am an OSOL noob. I have used Linux mainly, and some FreeBSD. Originally I planned on using FreeBSD for this, but am a bit nervous about it's ZFS support, might as well run it on the native kernel, and the upcoming OSOL build has a lot of neat sounding features.
Basically, my plan is to build a machine I can stick at home that will do nightly rsyncs to servers that I administer for various reasons. When the rsync is done, create a snapshot. Essentially nightly snapshots on the receiver side, since I cannot change the OS/filesystem on the remote servers. I'd plan on setting up one ZFS filesystem for each server. 15 at the most to start. Probably wouldn't grow very much more than that. I'm looking at a few million files, no more than 2TB of data to start. But I'd want plenty of room to grow. I also might decide to use this machine for home media storage as well (so I'd be using CIFS and/or NFS clients to access it) I'm looking for good hardware suggestions, I'd want 6 drives minimum. The main thing is finding a chassis that will keep all of this quiet. Then finding the right motherboard and/or extra SATA controller for more ports (if needed) with well-supported chipsets, etc. Services: ssh, ftp (maybe), cifs, nfs (maybe) How much RAM would you suggest for this? I'm thinking 4GB should handle these needs, but I have never adminned/dealt with a Solaris machine before. I'd be planning on running this on an Intel Core2 architecture. Would a dual-core suffice? I assume so. I'd be initiating the rsyncs at random times throughout the day - so it won't be one huge hit at once, if that helps at all. Any help is appreciated. FYI, I got more tempted to jump ship and try OSOL for storage after reading this: http://elektronkind.org/2008/07/opensolaris-2008-11-storage Thanks a ton! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
