Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

[Oscar Hodgson]

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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