zfs

Hey all I got my first LSI SAS HBA this week (LSI SAS 2008) and now want to get a second for my home file server running Solaris 11.3. I've found a good deal on a used LSI 9217-8i with the SAS 2308 chipset. It's priced the same as an OEM 9211-8i/SAS2008 but it's in the UK so I can get it...

Hey all I'm in the process of building a new pool on my home Solaris 11.3 server. The final pool will be 16 x 2TB drives, configured as 2 x 8-drive RAIDZ2 for a total of 12 data drives and 4 parity. One complication is that I have a mixture of 4k and 512 sector drives, and so I've been...

Hey all I am in the process of upgrading the storage on my home file server, which runs Solaris 11.3 on an Ivy Bridge i5-3550 (H77 chipset) with 32GB of RAM, using a mixture of storage controllers : 8 ports from an LSI 9211-8i; 6 ports from the onboard H77 controller and up to another 8 ports...

I'm stuck in my own thoughts when it comes to my next home server. I'm currently running out of space in the current system and the setup feels old and inefficient. APC SmartUPS 1500 (bought used, probably over sized for the task, noisy when the fans runs every now and then. Efficiency? I have...

Apologies if this question does not below to this forum. I am running a small number of Windows 10 guests on libvirt-2.5 + qemu-2.7 + linux-4.8 with ZFS 0.6.5.8 . Disks of the guests are setup on ZFS zvols , for example disk C: of guest "lublin" ... <disk type='block' device='disk'>...

Thought I would see if anyone was interested in this lab setup before I go to eBay with it. HP/Compaq 22u rack Cisco 2970 - $75 3x Dell R610 II - $250/ea 2x X-series @ 2.8Ghz 96GB SAS6/i (non-RAID) iDRAC Enterprise 1x SMC 2U - $1,000 2x X-series @ 2.8Ghz 48GB On-board LSI is RAID w/ No JBOD...

Hey Guys I was thinking if anyone in this forum might answer me couple of things i don´t know the answers to myself. 1) I know you can run ZFS on a virtual machine if you do PCI passthrough (with LSI controller with the 2008 chipset). But i´m wondering who provides a good service running ZFS...

Hi all - I'm with The IT Mart, an online store for server/workstation hardware. While we've been around for over 20+ years, the website itself is a new face for us. As our introduction on STH, we're offering a 15% discount on the below server for forum members (with Patrick's pre-approval)...

i got freenas running on a 2 vcpu 8gb vm on esxi with passthrough to the intel sata ports (2x 6gbps and 4x3gbps). it currently has 4x1tb 7200rpm drives in raid10. it serves the shared datastore to my vmwre lab via iscsi. since i only got 2 extra sata ports to expand and improve the performance...

Hi, I tried this once before but it ended up more manual than I'd like and was hoping that someone could post an easy way to accomplish this via CLI (omnios) or Napp-iT. I have a pool "ssd1" and a zfs volume "Users" shared using cifs by the name "Users" I'd like to move this entire volume to...

Hello everyone!! I ended up purchasing (10) 2TB Hitachi drives from ebay when they were $30 each. Of the 10 2 had a bunch of bad blocks leaving me 8 that I can use. I'm wanting to build an all in one Napp-it server on ESXi 6. This is going to be for my home environment with 30 VMs max and about...

This is on a production NAS so I want make double sure I am doing it right. 14 bay jbod Currently single raidz1-0 vdev with 7 disks and 2 spares. I want to take the 2 spares and 5 new disks and make a second vdev to increase space to max out my box. So my questions are these... Should I...

Hi all, I'd love to run a Proxmox setup for my home server and really like the flexibility that BTRFS seems to offer for my personal files and media, but I know that BTRFS isn't great with VMs (by default) nor integrated into Proxmox. So I'm wondering whether I can do some sort of mix of ZFS...

I have a setup where there are 4 remote sites and a primary site. Each have their own Windows 2012 server running DNS and AD. The networks are meshed so everybody can see everybody. Recently I have been replacing our old servers with new ones with similar setup. Everybody has the same hardware...

I've been running OmniOS + Napp-IT for a few months now and have been happy for the most part. I just recently added a 3700 SSD as a volume and figured I'd benchmark the SSD vs my two spinning rust volumes. Upon completing all of the benchmarks I'm less than impressed by all of the results. The...

(This turned out to be a long thread start...sorry...) Im redoing my servers at home and looking to maybe redo the storage too. Today I run ESXi on two hosts and run like periodic backups to external storage, because I never really found a way to do it properly. (VMs backup via Unitrends). ...

Beside the established new generation filesystems like NetApp Wafl and ZFS and those that are inspired from ZFS like btrfs or ReFS there is a new filesystem from Apple on the horizon: APFS, that includes some features of ZFS like CopyOnWrite but lacks others like checksums on data. This is...

I have a 960GB S3700 that I'm using as a datastore for VMs (iSCSI) but would like to add a SLOG. Can I recreate the volume on the SSD to use part of it for SLOG and part of it for data? Thanks!

Looking at moving from custom built NAS boxes using Supermicro hardware and FreeNAS to Synology's RackStation units. Looking to reduce the time spent messing around with supporting the FreeNAS boxes and wondering if the Synology BTRFS NAS's are as reliable and fast at snapshotting data as...

Hey folks, I have been piecing together a server/enclosure setup for my home backup and media serving needs but having nothing but trouble with Freenas (specifically ZFS). I put the post in this forum because I am assuming it has something to do with my LSI9207 / SA120 / R720 since it just...