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

[Reginald Beardsley]

I suggest reading this:

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+a+small+NAS+using+OI

I'm running double parity RAIDZ for /export and a 4 way mirror for the root pool.

Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Thu, 4/11/13, Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

From: Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au>
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 7:44 PM


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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