Riccardo Deiana
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Hi All,
I’m looking to change the OS on my current production storage server from Open-e 7 to possibly freeNAS or maybe Ubuntu server with ZFS. After doing my research and reading forums and beginners guides, im pretty sure free NAS will be able to do everything I require, but I’m a little worried about raid issues I may have.
Server Hardware
Supermicro 4U Chassis with 1280w High Efficiency Redundant PSU
Supermicro Intel E5-2600 Series DP Motherboard
2x Intel 2.0GHz Six-Core Xeon E5-2620 CPU’s
128GB Supermicro DDR3 ECC-Registered 1600MHz memory
2x 250GB Enterprise Class 7200RPM SATA 2.5” HDD’s (Internally Mounted for O/S)
No HDD’s
Open-E VSS 7 Unlimited License including Basic Support – Other support options available
1x E10G42BTDA – Intel X520-DA2 Network Adapter
Intel c602 chipset sata storage controller (no used)
Raid card 1
LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108
36 x4TB WD4000FYYZ internal drives
Using HBA side of card I also have a Supermicro JBOD with 24 x 2TB WD drives connected
Raid Card 2
LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e
Supermicro JBOD with 45 x 4TB WD4000FYYZ
Question 1: if I was to change my raid cards, which ones would be best suited and work with freenas, a card that can support a JBOD with 45 drives and an internal card which can support 36 drives?
I understand that the Intel RAID Controller Card 6G SAS PCI-E x8 8 internal ports (RS2WC080) and IBM ServeRAID M1015 after crossflash them to IT mode, will work but don’t they just support only 16 hard drives??
Question 2: can I crossflash my existing cards for them to work with the amount of drives I’m talking about or do I crossflash a cheaper card for the same effect?
The reason I’m changing OS is because Open-e is unable to resize/add space to a NAS share, without reformatting and deleting the data. The network is not overly complicated, mostly MAC clients (7) and a few Linux clients (3).
Question 3: I will be adding more Jbods to this system in the future, probably 45 bay with 4TB or 6TB hard disks. Is Freenas scalable/reliable enough for this kind of setup, so long as I have enough ram (ECC), processing power and use raid Z2. I will setup reporting and we have spare drives for swap out. Any more advice would be appreciated.
I have a 2nd server with more storage as a backup (@ warehouse across the road) using rsync to copy data.
Thanks in advance for your help
I’m looking to change the OS on my current production storage server from Open-e 7 to possibly freeNAS or maybe Ubuntu server with ZFS. After doing my research and reading forums and beginners guides, im pretty sure free NAS will be able to do everything I require, but I’m a little worried about raid issues I may have.
Server Hardware
Supermicro 4U Chassis with 1280w High Efficiency Redundant PSU
Supermicro Intel E5-2600 Series DP Motherboard
2x Intel 2.0GHz Six-Core Xeon E5-2620 CPU’s
128GB Supermicro DDR3 ECC-Registered 1600MHz memory
2x 250GB Enterprise Class 7200RPM SATA 2.5” HDD’s (Internally Mounted for O/S)
No HDD’s
Open-E VSS 7 Unlimited License including Basic Support – Other support options available
1x E10G42BTDA – Intel X520-DA2 Network Adapter
Intel c602 chipset sata storage controller (no used)
Raid card 1
LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108
36 x4TB WD4000FYYZ internal drives
Using HBA side of card I also have a Supermicro JBOD with 24 x 2TB WD drives connected
Raid Card 2
LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e
Supermicro JBOD with 45 x 4TB WD4000FYYZ
Question 1: if I was to change my raid cards, which ones would be best suited and work with freenas, a card that can support a JBOD with 45 drives and an internal card which can support 36 drives?
I understand that the Intel RAID Controller Card 6G SAS PCI-E x8 8 internal ports (RS2WC080) and IBM ServeRAID M1015 after crossflash them to IT mode, will work but don’t they just support only 16 hard drives??
Question 2: can I crossflash my existing cards for them to work with the amount of drives I’m talking about or do I crossflash a cheaper card for the same effect?
The reason I’m changing OS is because Open-e is unable to resize/add space to a NAS share, without reformatting and deleting the data. The network is not overly complicated, mostly MAC clients (7) and a few Linux clients (3).
Question 3: I will be adding more Jbods to this system in the future, probably 45 bay with 4TB or 6TB hard disks. Is Freenas scalable/reliable enough for this kind of setup, so long as I have enough ram (ECC), processing power and use raid Z2. I will setup reporting and we have spare drives for swap out. Any more advice would be appreciated.
I have a 2nd server with more storage as a backup (@ warehouse across the road) using rsync to copy data.
Thanks in advance for your help