Help me select hardware and software options for very large
?server
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Tue Jan 27 09:18:43 PST 2009
Terry Kennedy wrote:
> [Aristedes Maniatis wrote:]
> > [Terry Kennedy wrote:]
> > > I think this system may have the most storage ever configured on a
> > > FreeBSD system, and it is probably up near the top in terms of CPU and
> > > memory.
> >
> > I doubt it. 8 core systems are very common these days. I've seen
> > benchmarking with anything up to 64 cores (which I believe is the
> > current FreeBSD limit). As for memory, there was a recent thread with
> > someone installing 64Gb also claiming theirs was the biggest, but
> > others insisting that it certainly wasn't. As for storage, I know Sun
> > sell systems into the petabyte range which I assume these days are
> > powered by ZFS.
> >
> > The above is not to belittle your project; more to reassure you that
> > you aren't anywhere near the limits and you should have no troubles if
> > you tune things properly.
>
> Regarding storage, while there are other ZFS deployments (particularly
> on Sun equipment) which are a lot larger, I haven't seen any discussion
> of pools of this size on FreeBSD. And I have been keeping an eye on the
> FreeBSD ZFS discussions. That isn't to say that nobody has one, but if
> they do, they're keeping pretty quiet about it...
Well, I can tell you that your storage setup is _not_ the
largest ever configured on a FreeBSD system. Sometimes
there are reasons why you cannot disclose details about
your (or your customers') setups.
Best regards
Oliver
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