Hello everybody, this is my first post.
I need urgently to consolidate and make backups of all my PC, Mac and ESXi stuff. After done some tests in a virtual enviroment I'm going to build a Home Nas with Solaris 11.1 and ZFS for NFS and CIFS sharings. I will use a total of 8 disks, 6 RaidZ2 Seagate Constellation CS 2Tb ST2000NC001 and two old Seagate 500gb ZFS mirrored for operating system. I prefer for the time normal PC hardware and, once put security first, then migrate in the near future the RaidZ2 array on a server grade hardware. For this I would like to use a SATA controller that do not conditions in any way the future migration. I'm thinking about a DH77KC Intel motherboard, Pentium G2130 processor, 16Gb non-ECC ram. For the case I have not decided yet. Unfortunately the SATA ports on the motherboard are not enough so you have to add a SATA controller. On my ESXi stuff I'm currently using Dell H200 in traditional RAID mode, it’s cheap but performances aren’t the top. Because I cannot destroy my actual arrays, I also don’t know its performance under Solaris. I need advices…
Thank you.
I need urgently to consolidate and make backups of all my PC, Mac and ESXi stuff. After done some tests in a virtual enviroment I'm going to build a Home Nas with Solaris 11.1 and ZFS for NFS and CIFS sharings. I will use a total of 8 disks, 6 RaidZ2 Seagate Constellation CS 2Tb ST2000NC001 and two old Seagate 500gb ZFS mirrored for operating system. I prefer for the time normal PC hardware and, once put security first, then migrate in the near future the RaidZ2 array on a server grade hardware. For this I would like to use a SATA controller that do not conditions in any way the future migration. I'm thinking about a DH77KC Intel motherboard, Pentium G2130 processor, 16Gb non-ECC ram. For the case I have not decided yet. Unfortunately the SATA ports on the motherboard are not enough so you have to add a SATA controller. On my ESXi stuff I'm currently using Dell H200 in traditional RAID mode, it’s cheap but performances aren’t the top. Because I cannot destroy my actual arrays, I also don’t know its performance under Solaris. I need advices…
Thank you.