[OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

[Reginald Beardsley]

I have an N40L configured w/ 4 x 2 TB disks and 8 GB of ECC DRAM.  The disks have two partitions each.   A small one for a 4 way mirrored root pool and a large one for data using double parity RAIDZ.  It's a bit of extra work to configure, but works very nicely giving 100+ MB/s disk I/O. (179 MB/s 4 disk RAIDZ1, 109 MB/s RAIDZ2).  An N54L should do better.

The trick is to install  OI to a small partition on a single disk.  Then partition the other disks, mirror the root pool, detach the first disk, repartition it and  add it to the mirror.  Then form the RAIDZ on the rest of the disk.  Technically it's not bootable RAIDZ, but it's close enough for me.

Have Fun!
Reg

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On Fri, 2/7/14, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:

 Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server
 To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:50 AM
 
 I looked at a HP N54L today: Costs
 nothing, but actually handles ECC memory. Albeit very slow
 memory, and not very much.
 
 So, would it be reasonable to set this guy up with 4 2TB
 SATA disks, 8GB 800MHz ECC memory and run some Illumos based
 version with ZFS.
 
 I was thinking of putting two 2.5" small boot disks
 (300GB???) using some adapter in the optical drive slot, and
 4 2TB disks in a raidz to provide 6TB of storage with medium
 availability performance.
 
 Would this work?? Would the performance be good enough to be
 a home cloud server for media and/or documents?
 
 Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply
 than OpenIndiana for this setup?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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