Good evening everyone.
I wanted to start by saying that freenas is a fantastic project with a great deal of functionality and ease of use. I followed freenas in it's earlier days and now I've returned, what a great deal of progress the team has made... fantastic work!
To my question.
I've read the freenas slideshow and do believe I have a decent understanding of ZFS and the configuration specifics. My freenas box will be exclusively used for iSCSI and VMWare vSphere 5.1.
The hardware
Supermicro 24 Bay Chassis w/SAS2 Backplane
1 x Intel 530 120 GB SSD < Boot
20 x 1 TB Toshiba 1TB 7200RPM SAS2 Drives <- Storage
2 x Intel 310 120 GB SSD <- ZIL
2 x Intel 530 240 GB SSD <- L2ARC
LSI 9211-8I HBA Flashed with IT Firmware
64 GB Ram
2 x Intel Quadcore Xeon
From what my reading indicates, I should be creating 2 pools with 10 drives per pool raidz2. I've figured that out, but I get lost when trying to figure out how to assign the ZIL and L2ARC.
Some guidance would be beneficial, I'm open to doing a screen share and paying a bounty for some initial configuration guidance and tweaking given my specific requirements. Either way, I'll be making a donation to the project.
If anyone is willing to help and give me some general guidance that would be super cool!
I wanted to start by saying that freenas is a fantastic project with a great deal of functionality and ease of use. I followed freenas in it's earlier days and now I've returned, what a great deal of progress the team has made... fantastic work!
To my question.
I've read the freenas slideshow and do believe I have a decent understanding of ZFS and the configuration specifics. My freenas box will be exclusively used for iSCSI and VMWare vSphere 5.1.
The hardware
Supermicro 24 Bay Chassis w/SAS2 Backplane
1 x Intel 530 120 GB SSD < Boot
20 x 1 TB Toshiba 1TB 7200RPM SAS2 Drives <- Storage
2 x Intel 310 120 GB SSD <- ZIL
2 x Intel 530 240 GB SSD <- L2ARC
LSI 9211-8I HBA Flashed with IT Firmware
64 GB Ram
2 x Intel Quadcore Xeon
From what my reading indicates, I should be creating 2 pools with 10 drives per pool raidz2. I've figured that out, but I get lost when trying to figure out how to assign the ZIL and L2ARC.
Some guidance would be beneficial, I'm open to doing a screen share and paying a bounty for some initial configuration guidance and tweaking given my specific requirements. Either way, I'll be making a donation to the project.
If anyone is willing to help and give me some general guidance that would be super cool!