Timely discussion. I too am trying to build a stable yet inexpensive storage server for my home lab mostly for playing in the VM world as well as general data storage. I've considered several options ranging from the simple linux based NAS appliances to older EMC SANs. I finally decided to build an NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/(even FC target?) box going the opensolaris route with ZFS. What I'm trying to decide on is the appropriate hardware to build the storage server. I have:
- A couple of Dell Pentium 4 boxes - A couple of old Ultra SPARC (ultra80 and ultra 10) - D1000 array (but alas with old 36G drives) Other options are that I build a whitebox or buy a new PowerEdge or Sun X2200 etc use some kind of DAS such as Dell MD1000 (?) and use this box as the one and the only system (i.e. storage for PCs and my VM host). Of course this will be an expensive option. Any recommendations on a decent setup for my purposes as well as a good SATA DAS? I haven't build a PC for at least 4 years so I'm not up to date on the processors, mobos, controller cards etc. PS. Question for the gentleman who bought the external SATA disk array...how are you planning to connect it to the server? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
