Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

[Christopher Hearn]

On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

 On 9/18/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
 I'm currently thinking about rolling a variant of
 
 http://www.napp-it.org/napp-it/all-in-one/index_en.html
 
 with remote backup (via snapshot and send) to 2-3
 other (HP N40L-based) zfs boxes for production in
 our organisation. The systems themselves would
 be either Dell or Supermicro (latter with ZIL/L2ARC
 on SSD, plus SAS disks (pools as mirrors) all with
 hardware pass-through).
 
 The idea is to use zfs for data integrity and
 backup via data snapshot (especially important
 data will be also back-up'd via conventional DLT
 tapes).
 
 Before I test thisi --
 
 Is anyone using this is in production? Any caveats?
   
 I run an all-in-one and it works fine. Supermicro x9scl-f with 32gb ECC ram.  
 20 is for the openindiana SAN, with an ibm m1015 passed through via vmdirect 
 (pci passthru).  4 SAS nearline drives in 2x2 mirror config in a jbod 
 chassis.  2 samsung 830 128gb ssds as l2arc.  The main caveat is to order the 
 VMs properly for auto-start (assuming you use that as I do.)  The OI VM goes 
 first, and I give a good 120 seconds before starting the other VMs.  For auto 
 shutdown, all VMs but OI do suspend, OI does shutdown.  The big caveat: do 
 NOT use iSCSI for the datastore, use NFS.  Maybe there's a way to fix this, 
 but I found that on start up, ESXi would time out the iSCSI datastore mount 
 before the virtualized SAN VM was up and serving the share - bad news.  NFS 
 seems to be more resilient there.  vmxnet3 vnics should work fine for OI VM, 
 but might want to stick to e1000.
 Can I actually have a year's worth of snapshots in
 zfs without too much performance degradation?
   
 Dunno about that.


I did something similar:  
http://churnd.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/zfsesxi-all-in-one-part-1/

Works great… need to bump up the RAM to 32GB.
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Christopher Hearn]

On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:

 Hello.
 
 I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber 
 environment.
 This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency.
 Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not need the fiber 
 connection
 as every client connects with IP.
 So iSCSI, AFP, CIFS should be efficient for us.
 We have been running this setup since late/early 2006/2007 without problems.
 No that the hardware/software is warned out and we had pretty damn 
 catastropic filesystem failure lately.
 
 I've been running OpenIndiana on a custom made server with ZFS,CIFS,AFP and 
 all that
 for couple of months right now. Really good. This server just acts as a 
 temporary
 solution. Currently has 4x 2TB Enterprise SATA disks in RAIDz1 and expanding
 in few weeks with Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i and 4-8 more disks.
 Doing daily snapshots and, yea really love it.
 
 Are there any recommendations regarding HP Servers running OpenIndiana to act 
 as a ZFS
 Capacity server ?
 
 The server should only do :
 * AFP
 * CIFS
 * NFS
 * iSCSI
 * and of course ZFS underneath
 
 So what I'm looking at is a large capacity server.
 We need 12-20TB at the start.
 
 Any other vendors good ?  any servers that comes out of the box and runs
 Openindiana 151 with no problems (drivers / hardware ) e.t.c. acting as a 
 capacity server.
 And support would be a good option to.
 
 
 Any help would be much appreciated.
 
 Thanks allot.
 Best regards,
 
 Svavar - Reykjavik - Iceland

I haven't really seen any 100% commercially supported solutions for this.  If 
you put this configuration on an HP server  call them to report a problem, 
they're going to most likely deny your request because you're using an 
unsupported OS.  You may be able to get away with using Solaris 11, but you'll 
pay for it.  I suggest looking at NexentaStor  it's partners:  
http://www.nexenta.com.  Talk to them about what you want to do, they'd most 
likely be most receptive of unique setups.  I was able to get AFP working on 
NexentaStor Community edition.  I was not able to get it working with Active 
Directory (I'd love advice if anyone has it).  If anything, their partners 
would most likely be receptive to supporting the hardware configuration itself 
 the software would be up to you.  Better than nothing at all.

Chris



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