Re: [Xen-users] 24TB redundant storage

["Todd H. Foster" <toddf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is the conclusion that I came up with.  I now run 2 freenas boxes
and they are easy and cheap.  Not so good for running VM's.
I am now in the process of setting up a Nexenta Community box on a PE
2950 with 32gb ram, 6 500BG HD's, and ssd's for the cache's.
What I'm hoping for is, over 100MB of throughput on the working set.
This coupled with XCP thin provisioning should give me sparkling
performance for 50+ VM's, I hope;-)

Creating a failover cluster of Nexenta/OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana is not
terribly difficult, but not for the faint of heart either, but if you
want to build a high performance SAN for less than 10 or 20K, this is
the way to go using Dell, HP, or IBM hardware.

One point that we have not touched on is the network.  This can be just
as expensive as the SAN itself.  For my setup using 4 port gig cards
bonded together, my storage network is worth about 2k. IF I went with
10Gb that would be closer to 10k, and I'm talking about used equipment! 

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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] 24TB redundant storage

On the same hardware, Nexenta/OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana vastly outperforms
FreeNAS.
http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/09/10/freenas-vs-opensolaris-zfs-benchmarks
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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:46 PM
To: Sergey Melnik
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] 24TB redundant storage

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Sergey Melnik <admin.sa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Thanks for all your answers!
>
> Since this installation will be based on the remote site and we'll 
> have no access to physical location - we are trying to find a solution

> which is simple to manage and pure bulletproof.
> So no DIY appiances..
>
> Nexenta with all plugins seens to cost a lot, yet less than HP/Dell
solutuions.
>
> Have not seen Nexsan E18 before, gonna check if is suits our needs and

> avaliable in our country.

There's also FreeNAS appliances from iXsystems, which use FreeBSD+ZFS
underneath, but with a pretty web GUI to manage everything.  The TruNAS
boxes are basically drop-in, plug'n play boxes.

http://www.freenas.org
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Freddie Cash
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