Planning to use ZFS for shared storage and need advice...
This system has 8 x 3.5" drive bays and I was thinking of going RAID-Z2 with 8x2TB drives that I already have. I THINK I need 2 pools - 1 private pool for storing database backups and 1 pool for public file sharing.
Backups are nightly full backups of about 25 GB (total) from linux and windows systems staggered every hour. I'm not sure how much usage the file server will get. I'd say no more than 5-10 active clients at any given time.
Would appreciate any advise on setting up the pools, vdevs, etc. There is quite a bit of new terminology and concepts to get acquainted with coming from raid.
TIA!
This system has 8 x 3.5" drive bays and I was thinking of going RAID-Z2 with 8x2TB drives that I already have. I THINK I need 2 pools - 1 private pool for storing database backups and 1 pool for public file sharing.
Backups are nightly full backups of about 25 GB (total) from linux and windows systems staggered every hour. I'm not sure how much usage the file server will get. I'd say no more than 5-10 active clients at any given time.
Would appreciate any advise on setting up the pools, vdevs, etc. There is quite a bit of new terminology and concepts to get acquainted with coming from raid.
TIA!