[OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

[Geoff Nordli]

I have a couple of all-in-one server OI+Vbox servers running.

Supermicro X8DTH-6F
32GB of RAM
Seagate Constellation ES SAS Drives (both 1 and 2TB drives; the 
SEAGATE-ST1000NM0001 is the 1TB version).

These have been really solid boxes and I am virtualizing Ws08R2, centos 
(running a pbx) and ubuntu, and debian (running Kolab for mail).

Geoff

On 13-04-11 05:44 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
>
> G'day,
> I'm going to be building a new home/small office server soon, with 
> ~24GB or so of RAM and hopefully 6-8 TB of ZFS mirrored storage, as 
> well as a couple of 1TB HDDs for a ZFS root partition.
>
> It's going to run Virtualbox to virtualise a Linux (CentOS 5) and 
> Windows SBS 2003 server on it, thus the heaps of RAM etc. I will also 
> be using it as a native CIFS fileserver (and maybe whatever Apple uses 
> natively for file serving these days? It's been quite a while since I 
> did any Mac networking, who remembers Localtalk? ....) - eventually 
> going to shut down the SBS 2003 server and run most of its jobs.  The 
> SVS server is just a fileserver and exchange, I don't need AD or any 
> of that garbage and we're going to ditch exchange ASAP!  If it proves 
> to be stable enough I'm also going to virtualise a NetBSD box on it 
> (historical baggage) and bring my local hardware count down to 1 
> physical server.
>
> I know there's been discussion of large block sizes with modern SATA 
> HDD's (I was planning on using off the shelf Seagate Barracuda desktop 
> drives, they're cheap and fast enough for this box).  Am I likely to 
> run into any problems with modern drives with OI's current beta 
> release? I'm running oi_151a7 and hoping to keep doing so unless 
> there's a better illumos based distribution for my purpose?  It's not 
> really going to need much in the way of a GUI, but I do like having an 
> X11 desktop occasionally to work with the VB console.
>
> Suggestions? Advice?
>
> thank you
>
> Carl
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