[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

If money is not an issue ( you want to buy A-grade hardware) why not look at
Oracle hardware in combination with Solaris 11. When you buy Oracle hardware
you have full support on hard- and software in the first year.

I know I am walking on the edge right now, but when you have a budget there
is no reason to not buy Solaris 11 instead of OpenIndiana.




-----Original Message-----
From: Svavar Örn Eysteinsson [mailto:svavar at fiton.is]
Sent: dinsdag 3 januari 2012 15:06
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana
(Capacity Server) ?

Hello.

I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber
environment.
This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency.
Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not need the fiber
connection as every client connects with IP.
So iSCSI, AFP, CIFS should be efficient for us.
We have been running this setup since late/early 2006/2007 without problems.
No that the hardware/software is warned out and we had pretty damn
catastropic filesystem failure lately.

I've been running OpenIndiana on a custom made server with ZFS,CIFS,AFP and
all that for couple of months right now. Really good. This server just acts
as a temporary solution. Currently has 4x 2TB Enterprise SATA disks in
RAIDz1 and expanding in few weeks with Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i and 4-8 more
disks.
Doing daily snapshots and, yea really love it.

Are there any recommendations regarding HP Servers running OpenIndiana to
act as a ZFS Capacity server ?

The server should only do :
* AFP
* CIFS
* NFS
* iSCSI
* and of course ZFS underneath

So what I'm looking at is a large capacity server.
We need 12-20TB at the start.

Any other vendors good ?  any servers that comes out of the box and runs
Openindiana 151 with no problems (drivers / hardware ) e.t.c. acting as a
capacity server.
And support would be a good option to.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks allot.
Best regards,

Svavar - Reykjavik - Iceland




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