So I am looking to turn one of my C6100 nodes in to a ZFS server.
I have storage connectivity via a 16 by DAS (8 Drives - SAS2 - No expanders & 16 drives - SAS2 - expander with 8 channels to 16 drives).
Not sure what to use as a boot disk. Any real benefit from using a SDD and if so how big ?. If not then I will probably use a WD Blue 320GB I have knocking around.
I will probably use 2x Intel 520 60GB SSDs for ZIL. Sound reasonable ?. (max bandwidth is 2.5GB/s *10 seconds = 25GB requirement).
L2ARC will reside on a Intel 250 120GB drive. Is there a way of disabling caching for various disk pools. One pool is likely to be made up of multiple SSDs so the L2ARC could well be slower.
Anything else to consider before I start buying ?.
Thanks
RB
I have storage connectivity via a 16 by DAS (8 Drives - SAS2 - No expanders & 16 drives - SAS2 - expander with 8 channels to 16 drives).
Not sure what to use as a boot disk. Any real benefit from using a SDD and if so how big ?. If not then I will probably use a WD Blue 320GB I have knocking around.
I will probably use 2x Intel 520 60GB SSDs for ZIL. Sound reasonable ?. (max bandwidth is 2.5GB/s *10 seconds = 25GB requirement).
L2ARC will reside on a Intel 250 120GB drive. Is there a way of disabling caching for various disk pools. One pool is likely to be made up of multiple SSDs so the L2ARC could well be slower.
Anything else to consider before I start buying ?.
Thanks
RB