Thanks, Artem, it is a very good list of suitable hardware! I have a question about ZIL. I read that SSD for it should be about 8G. I did not see more than one gigabyte allocated for ZIL on our servers. Can you comment it? -- Sergey.
Regards, Sergey Ivanov On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Artem Penner <apenner...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Sergey. > My be following information will be useful for you. > We use solaris as HA NAS in following configuration: > > DATA_DISKS: HUC101818CS4204 / HUH728080AL5204 > SLOG: PX04SHB020 / PX05SMB040 / HUSMH8020BSS204 (PX04SHB020 has best > performance > https://dhelios.blogspot.ru/2016/11/ssd-hgst-husmh8020bss204_11.html) > L2ARC: HUSMH8080BSS204 / PX05SMB080 > > Servers: > 2 x Cisco UCS 240M4 ( 2 x E5-2697A, 768gb ram, 3 local hard disk for OS, 2 x > UCSC-SAS9300-8E, 2 x Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb SFP+ Adapter) > > JBODS: > 216BE2C-R741JBOD - for SFF disks > SC847E2C-R1K28JBOD - for LFF disks > > We have two HA variant: > 1) Solaris 11.3 + Solaris Cluster 4.3 (for VMware) > 2) OmniOS + RSF-1 (as Cinder for Openstack) > > If you need some additional info, I'll be glad to share any information that > I have. > > ср, 27 сент. 2017 г. в 22:39, sergey ivanov <serge...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi, >> as end-of-life of r151014 approaches, we are planning upgrade for our >> NFS servers. >> I'm thinking about 2 servers providing ISCSI targets, and 2 another >> OmniOS servers using these ISCSI block devices in mirrored ZPOOL >> setup. IP address for NFS service can be a floating IP between those 2 >> servers. >> I have the following questions: >> 1. Are there any advantages to have separate ISCSI target servers and >> NFS servers or I should better combine one ISCSI target and NFS >> server on each of 2 hosts? >> 2. I do not want snapshots, checksums, and other ZFS features for >> block devices at the level where they are exported as ISCSI targets, - >> I would prefer these features at the level where these block devices >> are combined into mirror Zpools. Maybe it's better to have these ISCSI >> target servers running some not so advanced OS and have 2 Linux boxes? >> 3. But if I have SSD for intent log and for cache, - maybe they can >> improve performance for ZVOLs used as block devices for ISCSI targets? >> >> Does anybody have experience setting up such redundant NFS servers? >> -- >> Regards, >> Sergey Ivanov >> _______________________________________________ >> OmniOS-discuss mailing list >> OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com >> http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss