my 2c 1 just do mirror of 2 dev with 20 hdd with 1 spare 2 raidz2 with 5 dev for 20 hdd, with one spare
Sent from my iPad On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:49, Thomas Nau <thomas....@uni-ulm.de> wrote: > Hi > > On 01/31/2012 10:05 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: >> what is your main application for ZFS? e.g. just NFS or iSCSI for home dir >> or VM? or Window client? > > Yes, fileservice only using CIFS, NFS, Samba and maybe iSCSI > >> Is performance important? or space is more important? > > a good balance ;) > >> what is the memory of your server? > > 96G > >> do you want to use ZIL or L2ARC? > > ZEUS STECRAM as ZIL (mirrored); maybe SSDs and L2ARC > >> what is your backup or DR plan? > > continuous rolling snapshot plus send/receive to remote site > TSM backup at least once a week to tape; depends on how much > time the TSM client needs to walk the filesystems > >> You need to answer all these question first > > did so > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
