I am currently (and have quite happily been) running Nexenta CE 3.1.3 (since April 2011) with 26 disks as my primary NAS with a usable space of about 5.5TB. It is supporting an expanding VMware deployment.
Current build:
Dell PowerEdge c2100
Dual Intel Xeon 5 (Westmere 2.4GHz)
144GB RAM @ 1333MHz (14x4)
Dual Intel x520-DA2 (for 4x 10GbE ports)
Mezzanine LSI SAS controller
2x 240GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD (L2ARC)
2x 120GB OCZ Deneva 2 SSD (ZIL)
22x Seagate 500GB Constellation 7200 RPM drives
Expansion:
We've got one PCI Slot available on the c2100, which I'm thinking to put an LSI 9200-8e on and add a 72 bay SuperMicro JBOD (Supermicro SuperChassis 417E16-R1400UB) and populate the chassis gradually with either 1TB or 500GB 7200 RPM Constellations, adding RAID-5 zPools as needed (or when disks are too cheap to say no).
Any objections, enhancements, or modifications to such a build? Ultimately, I intend to have 2 of these units in different geographic locations and replicate from A to B with a smallish appliance at each site taking backups of the data on each unit.
Additional Questions:
Different disk recommendations for the zil/l2arc?
Optimization suggestions?
Availability recommendations?
Everything has been done on a budget to this point, but I am now entertaining the idea of investing more in the growth of this system to support our business. I anticipate that this means either licensing with Nexenta or converting to a different OS and rebuilding our storage.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Current build:
Dell PowerEdge c2100
Dual Intel Xeon 5 (Westmere 2.4GHz)
144GB RAM @ 1333MHz (14x4)
Dual Intel x520-DA2 (for 4x 10GbE ports)
Mezzanine LSI SAS controller
2x 240GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD (L2ARC)
2x 120GB OCZ Deneva 2 SSD (ZIL)
22x Seagate 500GB Constellation 7200 RPM drives
Expansion:
We've got one PCI Slot available on the c2100, which I'm thinking to put an LSI 9200-8e on and add a 72 bay SuperMicro JBOD (Supermicro SuperChassis 417E16-R1400UB) and populate the chassis gradually with either 1TB or 500GB 7200 RPM Constellations, adding RAID-5 zPools as needed (or when disks are too cheap to say no).
Any objections, enhancements, or modifications to such a build? Ultimately, I intend to have 2 of these units in different geographic locations and replicate from A to B with a smallish appliance at each site taking backups of the data on each unit.
Additional Questions:
Different disk recommendations for the zil/l2arc?
Optimization suggestions?
Availability recommendations?
Everything has been done on a budget to this point, but I am now entertaining the idea of investing more in the growth of this system to support our business. I anticipate that this means either licensing with Nexenta or converting to a different OS and rebuilding our storage.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.