We are considering a ZFS Storage Server for our VMware VSphere 6.7 Environment.
Dell's SAN solutions do not appear to be price competitive. I'm open to other enterprise supported solutions.
ZFS provides minimal vender lock-in and gives us a lower cost to expand by adding 24 drive or 60 drive shelfs and lower yearly support costs.
Draft Plans are for HA Environment with Dual Head Nodes:
40 x 8TB NL-SAS Drives
20 x Mirrored vdevs of each 2 x 8TB
Raw Storage: ~291 TiB
ZFS Usable: ~140 TiB (20% free space limit => ~111 TiB)
ZIL: 16GB NVDIMM (ix) or 2 x 400GB SAS SSD (nexenta)
Thinking that a mirrored P4800X would be a massive upgrade tempting for Nexenta.
* Presenting to 12 VMware hosts by NFS
* Network from SAN: 4 x 10 GBE per controller (considering 4 x 40GBE)
Any experience with TrueNAS (ixSystems) or NexentaStor v5? (Support, Speed, Bugs, ...)
Better configurations or alternatives I should consider?
Dell's SAN solutions do not appear to be price competitive. I'm open to other enterprise supported solutions.
ZFS provides minimal vender lock-in and gives us a lower cost to expand by adding 24 drive or 60 drive shelfs and lower yearly support costs.
Draft Plans are for HA Environment with Dual Head Nodes:
40 x 8TB NL-SAS Drives
20 x Mirrored vdevs of each 2 x 8TB
Raw Storage: ~291 TiB
ZFS Usable: ~140 TiB (20% free space limit => ~111 TiB)
ZIL: 16GB NVDIMM (ix) or 2 x 400GB SAS SSD (nexenta)
Thinking that a mirrored P4800X would be a massive upgrade tempting for Nexenta.
* Presenting to 12 VMware hosts by NFS
* Network from SAN: 4 x 10 GBE per controller (considering 4 x 40GBE)
Any experience with TrueNAS (ixSystems) or NexentaStor v5? (Support, Speed, Bugs, ...)
Better configurations or alternatives I should consider?
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