Greetings to all !
I'm quite new in this opensolaris/zfs world, but it seems like this a
very nice piece of software and i would like to have some advise from
people that now what they say/do.
With this in mind i have a system with :
* SUN X2200 with 2xdual core AMD cpu's with 12GB attached to a SATA
chassis acting like a JOBD (no raid card here, only a LSI HBA to connect
SAS cable)
* 12 SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda with 32mb cache
* opensolaris 5.11 snv_101b
Our current storage it's a Sun Storedge 5210 with a 5 disks (10k scsi) in
a Raid 5 layout.I want to see if Opensolaris+ZFS+commodity hardware can
deliver better performance for a Sun Java Communications Suite mailstore,i
assume it will have random small read/write I/Os, with a size of 400GB.
The SUN 5210 it's mounted to the mailserver by NFS v3, and this new
storage will be made available to the mailserver using NFS v3 as well.
Regarding the zpool layout, my question is :
* what's the best configuration for
performance, specially in reading
from storage
I think that a mirror would deliver the best performance and giving us the
lowest capacity, and on the opposite we have RaidZ or RaidZ2. So should i
create a zpool with 3 sets of 2 disks mirrored, a raidz with 6 disks, or 1
zpool with 2 raidz sets on it?
Any kind of advice , tips will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bruno Sousa
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