Re: [zfs-discuss] Rule of Thumb for zfs server sizing with (192) 500 GB SATA disks?

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... William Papolis wrote: > I checked this out at the Solaris internals link above, because I am also > interested in the best setup for ZFS. > > Assuming 500GB drives ... > > It turns out that the most cost effective option (meaning the least "lost" > drive space due to redundan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rule of Thumb for zfs server sizing with (192) 500 GB SATA disks?

2007-09-29 Thread William Papolis
I checked this out at the Solaris internals link above, because I am also interested in the best setup for ZFS. Assuming 500GB drives ... It turns out that the most cost effective option (meaning the least "lost" drive space due to redundancy is to ... 1. Setup RaidZ of up to 8 drives (All mus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Rule of Thumb for zfs server sizing with (192) 500 GB SATA disks?

2007-09-26 Thread Marc Bevand
David Runyon sun.com> writes: > > I'm trying to get maybe 200 MB/sec over NFS for large movie files (need (I assume you meant 200 Mb/sec with a lower case "b".) > large capacity to hold all of them). Are there any rules of thumb on how > much RAM is needed to handle this (probably RAIDZ for all

[zfs-discuss] Rule of Thumb for zfs server sizing with (192) 500 GB SATA disks?

2007-09-26 Thread David Runyon
I'm trying to get maybe 200 MB/sec over NFS for large movie files (need large capacity to hold all of them). Are there any rules of thumb on how much RAM is needed to handle this (probably RAIDZ for all the disks) with zfs, and how large a server should be used? The throughput required is not