I've been lurking on here for some time, enjoying the ingenuity and useful insights since a colleague at a previous clients put me onto ZFS about 3 years ago. I've amassed 4 HP Microservers (2x N40, 2x N54) and an ML110 G7 which I use as VMware hosts and to experiment. There is also a home brew server which runs Win2008, my domain and storage.
I've made various attempts to setup a new storage resource but combinations of real-life, OSA and fluctuating income have meant they stalled. The most recent one was to use the ML110 as an all-in-one running VMware and hosting Nexenta or Napp-it and a Windows 2012R2 Essentials instance but it wasn't that straight-forward to setup so I've put it aside for the moment. I'll return to that later but I've decided to focus purely on storage. So one of the N54L's is getting upgraded to 16GB with the appropriate Kingston ECC RAM and having 4 x 1TB WD Red drives installed. I've got a Dell H200 which I'll cross flash to IT mode and a decent Intel server NIC. The current dataset is 700GB but expected to grow once I've implemented my Tivo replacement solution. So my questions to the panel are:-
Which storage OS? Nexenta or Napp-it (or Freenas)
Hard disk config? RaidZ1 or Raid10 equivalent?
Is an SSD for L2ARC worthwhile?
Thanks,
P.
I've made various attempts to setup a new storage resource but combinations of real-life, OSA and fluctuating income have meant they stalled. The most recent one was to use the ML110 as an all-in-one running VMware and hosting Nexenta or Napp-it and a Windows 2012R2 Essentials instance but it wasn't that straight-forward to setup so I've put it aside for the moment. I'll return to that later but I've decided to focus purely on storage. So one of the N54L's is getting upgraded to 16GB with the appropriate Kingston ECC RAM and having 4 x 1TB WD Red drives installed. I've got a Dell H200 which I'll cross flash to IT mode and a decent Intel server NIC. The current dataset is 700GB but expected to grow once I've implemented my Tivo replacement solution. So my questions to the panel are:-
Which storage OS? Nexenta or Napp-it (or Freenas)
Hard disk config? RaidZ1 or Raid10 equivalent?
Is an SSD for L2ARC worthwhile?
Thanks,
P.