ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

[Jorge Medina]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry to cross-posting. I don't knwon which mailing-list I should post this
> message.
>
> I'll would like to use FreeBSD with ZFS on some Dell server with some
> MD1200 (classique DAS).
>
> When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID PERC H800 card on the server so we have
> two options :
>
>        1/ create a LV on the PERC H800 so the server see one volume and put
>        the zpool on this unique volume and let the hardware manage the
>        raid.
>
>        2/ create 12 LV on the perc H800 (so without raid) and let FreeBSD
>        and ZFS manage the raid.
>
> which one is the best solution ?
>
> Any advise about the RAM I need on the server (actually one MD1200 so 12x2To disk)
>
> Regards.

for ZFS approach the second option in my opinion is better.

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Jorge Andrés Medina Oliva.
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