I had a thread in the HDD section but here is probably a better fit at this point.
Operating System/ Storage Platform: likely end up on solaris 11.2/nappit or omnios/nappit
CPU: Xeon e5-1620v3
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRH-CF
Chassis: 3x supermicro 24 drive (846 series) 4U + 1x supermicro (216 series) 24x2.5" 2u
Disks: 66x 1TB WD SE + 1 SSD for L2 + 2x 32GB satadom for the OS mirror
RAM: 128GB DDR4 - 8x 16gb 2133mhz
Add-in Cards: FusionIO iodrive2 365GB for ZIL, 8GB FC card, LSI 9207-8e
Power Supply: redundant as per chassis
The 2U case is going to be the brains, the 24 drive cases will just act as JBOD storage boxes attached to it, i had initially intended to use 2.5" drives but sourcing them and at a reasonable price was much harder than expected (in AU or to even get them to AU) for higher performance drives, going back to 3.5" and at this density takes up an extra 10RU but cuts costs considerably, compact would have been nice but wasnt essential.
I had planned to use more SSD for l2, but after looking into it a lot further and the actual hit rate of the L2 in the current system i feel the money can be better spent later expanding some pure SSD storage into the 2u case if required and the additional 6 slots over the 24 drive cases can be used for higher capacity slower drives as a bulk storage pool if required.
The parts are slowly coming in, i have the motherboard/cpu/iodrive and satadoms. the ram was purchased over the weekend and is on its way from the US, the cases will also have to make their way over from the US when they become avaliable, drives and SSD will be purchased locally for ease of any warranty claims.
The system will be acting as the new primary VM storage, the system that is currently running will be modified a bit and rebuilt as secondary storage to go to a second site to run redundant virtuals, both boxes will probably be setup to replicate their main VM storage to each other as a backup with the added bonus that there are systems capable of firing up the machines on either end with some minor config changes should something go wrong (this isnt/wont be the only backup system, it never hurts to have a couple of different types of backups).
Operating System/ Storage Platform: likely end up on solaris 11.2/nappit or omnios/nappit
CPU: Xeon e5-1620v3
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRH-CF
Chassis: 3x supermicro 24 drive (846 series) 4U + 1x supermicro (216 series) 24x2.5" 2u
Disks: 66x 1TB WD SE + 1 SSD for L2 + 2x 32GB satadom for the OS mirror
RAM: 128GB DDR4 - 8x 16gb 2133mhz
Add-in Cards: FusionIO iodrive2 365GB for ZIL, 8GB FC card, LSI 9207-8e
Power Supply: redundant as per chassis
The 2U case is going to be the brains, the 24 drive cases will just act as JBOD storage boxes attached to it, i had initially intended to use 2.5" drives but sourcing them and at a reasonable price was much harder than expected (in AU or to even get them to AU) for higher performance drives, going back to 3.5" and at this density takes up an extra 10RU but cuts costs considerably, compact would have been nice but wasnt essential.
I had planned to use more SSD for l2, but after looking into it a lot further and the actual hit rate of the L2 in the current system i feel the money can be better spent later expanding some pure SSD storage into the 2u case if required and the additional 6 slots over the 24 drive cases can be used for higher capacity slower drives as a bulk storage pool if required.
The parts are slowly coming in, i have the motherboard/cpu/iodrive and satadoms. the ram was purchased over the weekend and is on its way from the US, the cases will also have to make their way over from the US when they become avaliable, drives and SSD will be purchased locally for ease of any warranty claims.
The system will be acting as the new primary VM storage, the system that is currently running will be modified a bit and rebuilt as secondary storage to go to a second site to run redundant virtuals, both boxes will probably be setup to replicate their main VM storage to each other as a backup with the added bonus that there are systems capable of firing up the machines on either end with some minor config changes should something go wrong (this isnt/wont be the only backup system, it never hurts to have a couple of different types of backups).