Ben Lavery
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- Nov 8, 2016
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Good afternoon all,
Currently I have an old Mac Pro that has OS X + OpenZFS installed, I've got four 3TB WD Reds configured in a RAIDz - the OS is on a USB stick.
On top of this, I have a FreeBSD VM running with Jails for Nextcloud, Quassel Core, and GitLab.
It's a rather expensive way of achieving the service I want, and I'm looking at the HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T to shrink physical size, and power requirements. It would make sense to make use of FreeNAS over FreeBSD since I can still have Jails, but get the simplicity of FreeNAS for storage management.
I've seen some threads on here that there are people running FreeNAS on this hardware. The only modification I would make is bumping the RAM to 16 or 32GB. But if anyone could confirm that this is suitable for a FreeNAS that would be reassuring.
My other question is that I don't think I need the added storage of a RAIDz, and am thinking that I would prefer the added protection of two striped mirrors (again, done via ZFS). I am a little loath to buy more hard drives since I already have four, and this HP server takes four drives. I've got approximately 2.7TB of data on the current array.
Understanding the risk involved, could this be a plan:
I'm still a month or more away from doing the switch, so I'm also wondering if I would be better to try and hold off until FreeNAS 10 ships, or if I would be fine using FreeNAS 9.10 and upgrading to 10 via the UI later?
Thoughts are very much welcome.
Thanks very much,
Ben
Currently I have an old Mac Pro that has OS X + OpenZFS installed, I've got four 3TB WD Reds configured in a RAIDz - the OS is on a USB stick.
On top of this, I have a FreeBSD VM running with Jails for Nextcloud, Quassel Core, and GitLab.
It's a rather expensive way of achieving the service I want, and I'm looking at the HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T to shrink physical size, and power requirements. It would make sense to make use of FreeNAS over FreeBSD since I can still have Jails, but get the simplicity of FreeNAS for storage management.
I've seen some threads on here that there are people running FreeNAS on this hardware. The only modification I would make is bumping the RAM to 16 or 32GB. But if anyone could confirm that this is suitable for a FreeNAS that would be reassuring.
My other question is that I don't think I need the added storage of a RAIDz, and am thinking that I would prefer the added protection of two striped mirrors (again, done via ZFS). I am a little loath to buy more hard drives since I already have four, and this HP server takes four drives. I've got approximately 2.7TB of data on the current array.
Understanding the risk involved, could this be a plan:
- Remove one disk from my current RAIDz array and install into the HP.
- Install FreeNAS onto the HP and set up the single disk as the sole disk in a zpool.
- Transfer the 2.7TB of data to the new zpool (sat on a 3TB disk).
- Remove another disk from the original array and install into the HP - Tell FreeNAS to add this new disk as a mirror to the previous one.
- Remove the final two drives from the original array and install into the HP - Tell FreeNAS to mirror them together and stripe with the first mirror.
I'm still a month or more away from doing the switch, so I'm also wondering if I would be better to try and hold off until FreeNAS 10 ships, or if I would be fine using FreeNAS 9.10 and upgrading to 10 via the UI later?
Thoughts are very much welcome.
Thanks very much,
Ben