[OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

[Johan Hertz]

Hi,

I just setup a Dell PowerEdge T20 using Smart OS  and it works just 
fine. It start at 2199kr (not including VAT) so it is a cheap server 
too. I went for the Xeon E3 processor which is a bit more expensive but 
you might be ok with the cheaper options.

Here's the link
http://www.dell.com/se/foretag/p/poweredge-t20/pd?~ck=anav

Regards
Johan

On 2014-02-07 18:55, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> 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.
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> 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:
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>   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.
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>   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.
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>   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.
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>   Would this work?? Would the performance be good enough to be
>   a home cloud server for media and/or documents?
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>   Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply
>   than OpenIndiana for this setup?
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