We got 50+ X4500/X4540's running in the same DC happiliy with ZFS. Approximately 2500 drives and growing everyday...
Br Mertol Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +902123352222 Email mertol.ozyo...@sun.com -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Johansen Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:45 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale ZFS deployments out there (>200 disks) On 01/28/10 11:13 PM, Lutz Schumann wrote: > While thinking about ZFS as the next generation filesystem without > limits I am wondering if the real world is ready for this kind of > incredible technology ... > > I'm actually speaking of hardware :) > > ZFS can handle a lot of devices. Once in the import bug > (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6761786) > is fixed it should be able to handle a lot of disks. That was fixed in build 125. > I want to ask the ZFS community and users what large scale deploments > are out there. How man disks ? How much capacity ? Single pool or > many pools on a server ? How does resilver work in those > environtments ? How to you backup ? What is the experience so far ? > Major headakes ? > > It would be great if large scale users would share their setups and > experiences with ZFS. The largest ZFS deployment that we have is currently comprised of 22 Dell MD1000 enclosures (330 750 GB Nearline SAS disks). We have 3 head nodes and use one zpool per node, comprised of rather narrow (5+2) RAIDZ2 vdevs. This setup is exclusively used for storing backup data. Resilver times could be better - I am sure that this will improve once we upgrade from S10u9 to 2010.03. One of the things that I am missing in ZFS is the ability to prioritize background operations like scrub and resilver. All our disks are idle during daytime and I would love to be able to take advantage of this, especially during resilver operations. This setup has been running for about a year with no major issues so far. The only hickups we've had were all HW related (no fun in firmware upgrading 200+ disks). > Will you ? :) Thanks, Robert -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Henrik Johansen hen...@scannet.dk Tlf. 75 53 35 00 ScanNet Group A/S ScanNet _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
