Have a Dell Poweredge with 16 disks each at 16TB. Looking for a best practice for laying out the pools, vdevs, etc.

[mtindall1]

Have a Dell Poweredge with 16 disks each at 16TB. Looking for a best practice for laying out the pools, vdevs, etc. 1 pool with multiple vdevs? 1 pool and 1 vdev? Sorry, but havent worked with ZFS.

 

[c77dk]

Welcome to the forums

The layout will depend on your usecase - please explain what you want to achieve (IOPS/space/redundancy/throughput), and some details of the hardware a described in the red "Forum Rules" link.