[OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

[Brogyányi József]

Volker

I'd like to give you some suggestions.
First the "zpool list -v" is useless code if you want to know the free 
space.
You try this:zfs list. You can see the real space on your server.
Another useless thing is when you sliced your SSD and put on 
rpool,cache,log.
If you want to increase your performance use standalone SSD for log and 
another for cache.
My experience is about rpool not sensitive for the drive speed. I use a 
very slow disk for rpool and I've not notice any server performance 
decrease.
But I have to say the booting time is slow and when I want to login that 
is not very comfortable.
This slow things not effect any running service and copy speed from RAID.
These was a beginner experiences.
Have nice day.

Regards
Brogyi

2014.02.07. 18:20 keltezéssel, Volker A. Brandt írta:
>> 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.
> Yes.  Note that you could also put in 2x 8GB = 16 GB.  I am not
> really sure what you mean by "very slow".  I use Kingston PC3-10600
> CL9 ECC 8 GB DIMMs.
>
>> 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.
> Do you really need the mirrored boot?
>
>> Would this work??
> Yes, altough you would have to find a sixth SATA connector for
> the second small boot disk, or you would have to loop the eSATA
> port back inside the case.
>
>> Would the performance be good enough to be a home
>> cloud server for media and/or documents?
> Yes.
>
>> Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply than
>> OpenIndiana for this setup?
> I am using OmniOS, with a 128 GB Samsung SSD as boot and cache, and
> four 3TB disks in the four slots:
>
> <nfs:/tmp,1597> cat /etc/release
>    OmniOS v11 r151006
>    Copyright 2012-2013 OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved.
>    Use is subject to license terms.
> <nfs:/tmp,1598> zpool list -v
> NAME         SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
> dpool       5.44T  2.67T  2.77T         -    49%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
>    mirror    2.72T  1.33T  1.39T         -
>      c1t0d0      -      -      -         -
>      c1t2d0      -      -      -         -
>    mirror    2.72T  1.33T  1.39T         -
>      c1t1d0      -      -      -         -
>      c1t3d0      -      -      -         -
> cache           -      -      -      -      -      -
>    c1t5d0s6  87.1G  3.36M  87.1G         -
> rpool         32G  8.87G  23.1G         -    27%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
>    c1t5d0s0    32G  8.87G  23.1G         -
>
>
> Easy to deploy (except the "slice the SSD up into rpool and cache"
> bit). Works very well.
>
>
> Regards -- Volker