Hello,
We are migrating our production environment to Microsoft Azure. We have decided to buy one new file server to the local office for fast and safe file storage for business-documents, code-builds and other files. In space we only need 10TB+. Here i thought storage spaces and ReFs would be the perfect fit.
But after some testing i realize its not possible to use storage spaces tiering with ReFs! And Storage spaces direct requires minimum two nodes so i cannot use that either. There goes my idea with ReFs, some fast SSDs pooled with some HDDs to get the safety, capacity and the speed....
Im really confused as why its still not possible to build a simple single SAN which is both fast and safe using storage spaces + ReFs when its simple using ZFS.
A windows server would be much easier to integrate and maintain in the current windows environment than a ZFS based server (i.e. Freenas).
My thoughts/questions for the wise STH people
Thanks!
We are migrating our production environment to Microsoft Azure. We have decided to buy one new file server to the local office for fast and safe file storage for business-documents, code-builds and other files. In space we only need 10TB+. Here i thought storage spaces and ReFs would be the perfect fit.
But after some testing i realize its not possible to use storage spaces tiering with ReFs! And Storage spaces direct requires minimum two nodes so i cannot use that either. There goes my idea with ReFs, some fast SSDs pooled with some HDDs to get the safety, capacity and the speed....
Im really confused as why its still not possible to build a simple single SAN which is both fast and safe using storage spaces + ReFs when its simple using ZFS.
A windows server would be much easier to integrate and maintain in the current windows environment than a ZFS based server (i.e. Freenas).
My thoughts/questions for the wise STH people
- Should i consider staying on NTFS and tier some HDDs + SSDs for the file storage? It feels like a waste to store lots of archive/cold-data on an all SSD pool.
- Is it safe to use consumer SSDs in storage spaces (i know in ZFS i need power caps for my ZIL)?
- Do storage spaces still have performance problems with parity layouts like raid-5?
Thanks!