2008/9/8 Ben Rockwood wrote: > The one recommendation I'll make that may not immediately be > self-evident is to put as much memory in the box as possible. The more > memory for caching (ZFS ARC) the better. I'd argue that you'd do better > to save yourself a couple hundred bucks on a good HW RAID controller and > instead sink the cash into extra memory.
That's great Ben, extremely useful stuff. Right now i'm considering using a HP Netserver E800, with two 733mhz P3 CPU's. It has two 64-bit PCI-X slots, so I am contemplating the SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8-port controllers, as they appear to be well-supported in Solaris (same chipset as the Thumper, perhaps?). So the ultimate spec in my head right now is the HP E800, 2x733mhz, 1GB RAM (can upgrade to 2GB max), 2xAOC-SAT2-MV8 + 8x500GB SATA HDD's, A.N.Other 2-port SATA controller + 2x40GB SATA HD's (hardware mirror) for o/s,onboard 10/100, two Intel gige NIC's. This will be configured with the latest OpenSolaris express build, using the 8 larger drives as a single raidZ2 pool, presenting itself via iSCSI (and eventually NFS). Unless anyone can see any problem with the spec above, I think i'll go ahead and give it a shot! Out of interest, does anyone know if it is possible to configure iSCSI to only use one particular NIC? I want to use one NIC for iSCSI (for my storage vlan) and the other for management and NAS (NFS) type duties. Thanks! _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
