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

[Open Indiana]

Completely true Mr. Toustrup, but I personaly don't like the closed solution
of Nexenta. Yes, they offer a great storage solution but you are not allowed
to enter the core of the server and that is what I hate.

If you want, for example, to also use the server as a SVN or Git server then
nexenta will give you problems.


It might be wise to wait a month or so to order the hardware, harddisks are
still very pricey. 




-----Original Message-----
From: Jeppe Toustrup [mailto:openindiana at tenzer.dk]
Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 10:05
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for
Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 09:28, Open Indiana <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
> 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.

If Svavar should be spending money on the OS, then why not suggest Nexenta?
They make an storage appliance operating system, and at the same time
contributes to illumos. It lets the OP use HP servers if he so prefers, and
it can help out illumos and thereby OpenIndiana at the same time.
Sure, Sun/Oracle do create nice hardware, but with the redundancy and error
detection available in illumos/OpenIndiana, I don't see any need for paying
their premium for the hardware compared to other manufactures.

Svavar, the two points to have in mind when considering hardware for such a
storage system would be:

1. How much RAM it takes. ZFS likes RAM and preferably uses it as its read
cache, which gives really fast response times for often accessed data. That
along with the predictive read-ahead makes large streaming reads fast as
well.

2. How many drives it handles and which types. Depending on your workload
and expectations for the speed of the storage system, you may want to look
into adding SSDs to your setup. ZFS can both use them as a read cache -
extending the existing read cache in RAM - or as a write cache for
synchronous writes, if your application makes use of that (note: iSCSI
writes are always synchronous!).

--
Venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer)

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