So I had bought the following components for a nearline storage for work -
currently projects are moved onto the nearline, archived to LTO6 tape , and then archived again to tape before being deleted after 12 months.
Data is moved via NFS over night from various other data storage when its ready to be archived.
right now I have the following components that were going to be just another Centos 6.5 XFS box.
Supermicro SC847BE2C Chassis with front and rear backplane sas3 version
Supermicro X10DRi motherboard
128GB DDR4 ECC Ram
2 x xeon e5 v3 procs
intel 10Gb Ethernet Nic
2 samsung pro 128gb ssd hardrives to mirror the OS (mounted in case)
1 samsung pro 256gb ssd hardrives for Cache (in rear hotswap chassis) Is this too big for the amount of Ram i have ?
30 HGST 6TB Hardrives for Volumes (24 in front ,6 in rear)
i also have an additional 2 Samsung pro 128gb SSd laying around that I was going to use for
the Zil (is this overkill, i know it doesn't need this much space but its what i have, will it be detrimental?)
i would mount these 2 in the rear hotswap bays if recommended.
I also have 2 x LSI 9300 8i cards which i was going to connect to both the front and rear back-plane
I admit i am a little confused as to how i should do this to achieve the best throughput and redundancy.
How is this usually done on a large storage device?
coming from Centos 6.5 machines with raid 6 cards i want to make sure i have as much redundancy set in place
if i am going to go the ZFS freenas route.
Any help pointers appreciated
thanks
currently projects are moved onto the nearline, archived to LTO6 tape , and then archived again to tape before being deleted after 12 months.
Data is moved via NFS over night from various other data storage when its ready to be archived.
right now I have the following components that were going to be just another Centos 6.5 XFS box.
Supermicro SC847BE2C Chassis with front and rear backplane sas3 version
Supermicro X10DRi motherboard
128GB DDR4 ECC Ram
2 x xeon e5 v3 procs
intel 10Gb Ethernet Nic
2 samsung pro 128gb ssd hardrives to mirror the OS (mounted in case)
1 samsung pro 256gb ssd hardrives for Cache (in rear hotswap chassis) Is this too big for the amount of Ram i have ?
30 HGST 6TB Hardrives for Volumes (24 in front ,6 in rear)
i also have an additional 2 Samsung pro 128gb SSd laying around that I was going to use for
the Zil (is this overkill, i know it doesn't need this much space but its what i have, will it be detrimental?)
i would mount these 2 in the rear hotswap bays if recommended.
I also have 2 x LSI 9300 8i cards which i was going to connect to both the front and rear back-plane
I admit i am a little confused as to how i should do this to achieve the best throughput and redundancy.
How is this usually done on a large storage device?
coming from Centos 6.5 machines with raid 6 cards i want to make sure i have as much redundancy set in place
if i am going to go the ZFS freenas route.
Any help pointers appreciated
thanks