As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS.
On 31 May 2012, at 18:05, Oscar Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote: > That helps. Thank you. > > This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. > We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great > opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so > much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable > for this "business" (there's no ROI at the departmental level <g>). > Solaris is not a viable option. > > FreeBSD looks like the next best available option at the moment, > particularly considering the use of the storage heads as compute > machines. OpenIndiana shows promise. Nexenta has a great product, > but the user community expects more flexibility in software options. > > Is there anything like a list of "supported" (known good) SAS HBA's? > > Oscar > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kaya Saman <[email protected]> wrote: >> If this is any consellation I run a 36TB cluster using a self built >> server with a Promise DAS (VessJBOD 1840) using ZFS at home! to >> support my OpenSource projects and personal files. >> >> As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11 >> >> >> All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of ZFS but still..... >> >> >> At work we're looking into getting a StorEdge appliance wich will >> handle up to 140+ TB. >> >> >> I am also in charge of redesigning one of our virtual SAN's to a >> FreeBSD ZFS storage system which will run.... well how many JBOD's can >> you fit on the system?? Probably round ~100TB or so..... >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Kaya >> >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Oscar Hodgson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better >>> place to be asking this question ... >>> >>> We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD >>> pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays >>> with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications >>> of people actually doing this. External JBODs would be running 24 to >>> 48TB each, roughly. There would be a couple of units. The pizza >>> boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have >>> 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. >>> >>> Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability. I've set >>> up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for >>> other tasks here, and those have been successful so far. >>> >>> Observations would be appreciated. >>> >>> Oscar. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
