Daniel Claesson
Dabbler
- Joined
- May 31, 2016
- Messages
- 35
Hi,
I want to replace an older SAN solution for a team of video editors (Adobe Premier etc).
Today there are 5 video editing workstations (3 Mac Pro's and 2 PC workstations) that are connecting to a SAN with iSCSI over 10GbE and to a fileserver (SMB) over 1GbE.
The SAN hosts individual "scratchdisks" to each workstation and a lager volume for shared material (only read rights to 4 of the 5 workstations).
This solution is not ideal and do not perform good enough. Backing up all this data (about 50TB) is a Sony ODA system that works very well.
The network is newly installed full stack of Cisco Meraki with both 1GbE and 10GbE switches.
I plan to scap the whole SAN system and replace it with a FreeNAS fileserver instead and adding local NVME SSD "scratchdisks" to each workstation.
The build i'm looking for feedback on is the following:
- Server: Supermicro SuperServer 6028R-E1CR12L (https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/6028/ssg-6028r-e1cr12l.cfm)
- CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2620v4
- RAM: 4x 16GB DDR4 ECC REG
- Boot device: 2x Supermicro SuperDOM 32GB SATADOM
- SLOG: 1x Intel Optane SSD 900P Scp 280GB
- L2ARC: 1x Intel Optane SSD 900P Scp 480GB
- Storage: 12x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 10TB SAS 12Gb/s 256MB512e
Setup thoughts:
- Regarding SLOG & L2ARC: I picked the Optane 900P over the Optane P4800x because of price and in the case of a "meltdown" the working data is on the "scrathdisks" of each workstation and also the other needed data for each project can be accessed from the ODA system. Not as simple as from the fileserver. But in an emergency the data can be fetched from the backup archive while waiting for a full data recovery to the fileserver. ODA system is also connected with 10GbE and give reasonable good speeds.
A stupid scenario or a somewhat reasonable calculated risk?
I also don't really know if the SLOG or L2ARC are needed. I plan to first test the performance without them, i can return both units if not needed.
- Storage: I will need 70TB of storage to start with, that will cover the storage needs for the team for at least 12-18 months. Later on i will have to add a JBOD chassis. I will test a couple of pool layouts, 3 vdevs with 4x10TB Raidz1 and 2 vdevs with 6x10TB Raidz2.
My main concern regarding storage is performance, will a 12 disk system with a "sane" zpool config generate enough speed, ~400-500MB/s to 2 workstations simultaneously or should i start with a system with more (and smaller) disks?
Best Regards
Daniel
I want to replace an older SAN solution for a team of video editors (Adobe Premier etc).
Today there are 5 video editing workstations (3 Mac Pro's and 2 PC workstations) that are connecting to a SAN with iSCSI over 10GbE and to a fileserver (SMB) over 1GbE.
The SAN hosts individual "scratchdisks" to each workstation and a lager volume for shared material (only read rights to 4 of the 5 workstations).
This solution is not ideal and do not perform good enough. Backing up all this data (about 50TB) is a Sony ODA system that works very well.
The network is newly installed full stack of Cisco Meraki with both 1GbE and 10GbE switches.
I plan to scap the whole SAN system and replace it with a FreeNAS fileserver instead and adding local NVME SSD "scratchdisks" to each workstation.
The build i'm looking for feedback on is the following:
- Server: Supermicro SuperServer 6028R-E1CR12L (https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/6028/ssg-6028r-e1cr12l.cfm)
- CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2620v4
- RAM: 4x 16GB DDR4 ECC REG
- Boot device: 2x Supermicro SuperDOM 32GB SATADOM
- SLOG: 1x Intel Optane SSD 900P Scp 280GB
- L2ARC: 1x Intel Optane SSD 900P Scp 480GB
- Storage: 12x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 10TB SAS 12Gb/s 256MB512e
Setup thoughts:
- Regarding SLOG & L2ARC: I picked the Optane 900P over the Optane P4800x because of price and in the case of a "meltdown" the working data is on the "scrathdisks" of each workstation and also the other needed data for each project can be accessed from the ODA system. Not as simple as from the fileserver. But in an emergency the data can be fetched from the backup archive while waiting for a full data recovery to the fileserver. ODA system is also connected with 10GbE and give reasonable good speeds.
A stupid scenario or a somewhat reasonable calculated risk?
I also don't really know if the SLOG or L2ARC are needed. I plan to first test the performance without them, i can return both units if not needed.
- Storage: I will need 70TB of storage to start with, that will cover the storage needs for the team for at least 12-18 months. Later on i will have to add a JBOD chassis. I will test a couple of pool layouts, 3 vdevs with 4x10TB Raidz1 and 2 vdevs with 6x10TB Raidz2.
My main concern regarding storage is performance, will a 12 disk system with a "sane" zpool config generate enough speed, ~400-500MB/s to 2 workstations simultaneously or should i start with a system with more (and smaller) disks?
Best Regards
Daniel