On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote: > PLEASE check the Solaris HCL and possible [email protected] before > building a file server. If you pick the wrong components, ZFS will hurt you > badly. If you pick the right components you will be so happy. >
This I know well - I was left with a file server that maxed out at 12MB/sec. Oh, and a dead hard drive which Seagate were more than happy to replace. There is a prebuilt appliance by the name of EON - it was based on OpenSolaris before Oracle killed it, now it's based on OpenIndiana/Illumos. There is a very good starting guide to get you on your way, with CIFS shares and the like. Instructions are quite similar to do NFS exports, even iSCSI if you're that way inclined. But as Mr. Anon says, choose your hardware carefully. Getting it wrong can be disastrous. My EON-based file server is a Core2Duo 6400 w/ 4GB RAM on a Gigabyte G41MT-ES2L and 4 2TB WD Green drives which collectively pull 177MB/sec, though the onboard Realtek NIC maxes out at 88MB/sec it still beats the shtick out of the 12MB/sec I was getting before.
