Configuration Suggestions

[norjms]

Hello starting a new freenas build with the available hardware.
2x Intel Xeon E5-2690
384gb of ecc ram
2x 100gb sdd for the OS. Mirrored?
3x 500gb SSD
8x 10tb spinning disks
2x10gb nics

I know this system should have plenty of power and I would like to harness it. I want to ensure I have 40tb of space but I am not sure what is the equivalent of raid 10. I'm also not sure of the best way to use the three SSD drives as a cache.

The use case of this server is
1. Feed an esxi cluster
2. Provide data storage of video so large files
3. I do not intend to run vm on this server as I do that on the cluster.

So how do I make this system run with fast storage and have some level of redundant storage?

 

[Chris Moore]

This will help you with terminology:

Slideshow explaining VDev, zpool, ZIL and L2ARC
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS from the iXsystems blog:
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/zfs-pools-in-freenas/

Terminology and Abbreviations Primer
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/terminology-and-abbreviations-primer.28174/

What kind of SSDs are the 500 GB units? They may not be suitable for SLOG

 

[Chris Moore]

2x 100gb sdd for the OS. Mirrored

A fine plan

 

[Chris Moore]

8x 10tb spinning disks

4 mirror vdevs.