[OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

[Ben Taylor]

That's a cool unit.  Could use something like that internal drive bay that
supported SAS disks.


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients
Amstafs ::.. <info at houseofancients.nl> wrote:

> Hi Hans,
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> 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/
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> 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
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> -----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
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> 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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