Hello,
I am about to start deploying a large system (about 18 To which can grow up to 36 To) based on a big Intel platform with lot's of fancy features to have turbo boosted platform (ZIL on SSD + system on dongle if I go for FreeNAS). Since I want to move on quite fast I might decide to use FreeNAS in it's latest version.
The idea behind all that was to grant 5 or six critical servers access to the NAS so that they can take advantage of :
The server accessing the data will be of two types :
I have started reading about iSCSI and potential problems with FreeBSD.
So my main questions would be :
The main idea is stability, redundancy of data and ease of maintenance (in a headless FreeBSD / Linux world) before anything else !
That's the big pictures, if you have any pointers, advise, they are all welcome.
It is quite late where I leave, so I will reply to posts in 8 to 10 hours, but I hope to have enough answer(s) to start an interesting thread (as I think this question is very interesting and not so clearly explained (at least in my mind))…
Thx very much for your infos and feedback.
I am about to start deploying a large system (about 18 To which can grow up to 36 To) based on a big Intel platform with lot's of fancy features to have turbo boosted platform (ZIL on SSD + system on dongle if I go for FreeNAS). Since I want to move on quite fast I might decide to use FreeNAS in it's latest version.
The idea behind all that was to grant 5 or six critical servers access to the NAS so that they can take advantage of :
- Space available on the NAS
- Ability of the NAS to use ZFS and of clients to support this file system (including snapshots)
- Access the server using iSCSI (at least this is what I initially planned).
- Mount part of their filesystem using data stored on the SAN (like /usr/local/ or other parts of the system).
The server accessing the data will be of two types :
- 1. 2 x Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS
- 2. 4 x FreeBSD (mainly 8 and 9) with jail configured
I have started reading about iSCSI and potential problems with FreeBSD.
So my main questions would be :
- Should I go for iSCSI ?
- Should I rather choose / prefer NFS ?
- Should I export a Volume as UFS rather than ZFS (is ZFS supported as a target) ?
The main idea is stability, redundancy of data and ease of maintenance (in a headless FreeBSD / Linux world) before anything else !
That's the big pictures, if you have any pointers, advise, they are all welcome.
It is quite late where I leave, so I will reply to posts in 8 to 10 hours, but I hope to have enough answer(s) to start an interesting thread (as I think this question is very interesting and not so clearly explained (at least in my mind))…
Thx very much for your infos and feedback.