[OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

[Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::..]

Hi Hans,

Take a look at this : http://andysworld.org.uk/2011/08/25/skynet-ssdsupersan-hp-proliant-microserver-with-a-6-bay-hot-plug-sata-drive-bay/

Actually build this thing, running it as a backend storage at home for 2 ESX machine, with about 25 VM's running on it.
Only difference I made was, fill the 6 extra bays with Samsung 840 pro's ( sliced) and fill the internal slots with 4 Tb disk in mirror.
I add 8 Gb internal mem, a m1015 and an extra 2 Gb intel nic Will give a cool 8 Tb net., maxes the Gb's out fully and does a very nice job in general



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se]
Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2014 17:50
Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Onderwerp: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

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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