Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

[Damien Fleuriot]

As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS.


On 31 May 2012, at 18:05, Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson at gmail.com> wrote:

> That helps.  Thank you.
> 
> This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment.
> We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great
> opportunities to put Solaris in front of students.  Oracle, not so
> much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable
> for this "business" (there's no ROI at the departmental level <g>).
> Solaris is not a viable option.
> 
> FreeBSD looks like the next best available option at the moment,
> particularly considering the use of the storage heads as compute
> machines.  OpenIndiana shows promise.  Nexenta has a great product,
> but the user community expects more flexibility in software options.
> 
> Is there anything like a list of "supported" (known good) SAS HBA's?
> 
> Oscar
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If this is any consellation I run a 36TB cluster using a self built
>> server with a Promise DAS (VessJBOD 1840) using ZFS at home! to
>> support my OpenSource projects and personal files.
>> 
>> As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11
>> 
>> 
>> All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of ZFS but still.....
>> 
>> 
>> At work we're looking into getting a StorEdge appliance wich will
>> handle up to 140+ TB.
>> 
>> 
>> I am also in charge of redesigning one of our virtual SAN's to a
>> FreeBSD ZFS storage system which will run.... well how many JBOD's can
>> you fit on the system?? Probably round ~100TB or so.....
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> Kaya
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The subject is pretty much the question.  Perhaps there's a better
>>> place to be asking this question ...
>>> 
>>> We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD
>>> pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays
>>> with ZFS.  In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications
>>> of people actually doing this.  External JBODs would be running 24 to
>>> 48TB each, roughly.  There would be a couple of units.  The pizza
>>> boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have
>>> 8 cores and 96G+ RAM.
>>> 
>>> Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability.  I've set
>>> up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for
>>> other tasks here, and those have been successful so far.
>>> 
>>> Observations would be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Oscar.
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