Daniel Santos
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Hello everyone,
This is my first post in the forum so please be kind to me =]
I am a sysadmin at a mid size company in Brazil (with this in mind please consider the fact that hardware probably costs 10 times more than wherever you live in) and I recently received a task to arquitect a low cost, reliable form of archiving for our SIEM system(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event_management).
The system is totally based on ESXi and consists of 5 virtual machines that stores its data on a shared NFS path. The "official archiving procedure" is a cp -r based script that just moves data to a path that you specify. This NFS path is hosted by ZFS dataset running on a Oracle Solaris Express 11.0 (not my choice =]) and the last time I checked were with 13TB of used space.
The solution I have in mind for a low cost archiving device, is to use another storage server we have here running FreeNAS, move data to a properly configured pool on this new server, export the pool and store the disks. The server I have available have the following specs:
Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTE-F
Processor(s): 2 x
RAM: 96GB of 1333Mhz registered ECC
RAID Controller(s): 3 x Intel (R) RAID Controller RS2WC080 (Just JBODS configured)
Disks: 24 x 2.0TB Western Digital WD2002FAEX
Now that I introduced my task, I will list the problems I have and hope for someone willing to help me solving them:
First problem:
Today the ESXi hosts are directly connected to the solaris storage. So I will need to aquire a gigabit switch (please dont tell me to by a 10GbE or migrate to fiber, I wish I could =[ ). As I consider myself just a entusiast in this field, what should I look for in a good switch for a NAS? Thats what came to my mind:
- Good single port buffer sizes;
- Bonding capabilities;
Does anyone sugest a good Quality x Cost relation model?
Second problem:
As my first backup will have arround 8TB and I wish I could run during the weekend, what tunning suggestion do you have for maximazing throughput ? I don´t care about responsiveness as this storage will be only used for backup purposes.
This is my first post in the forum so please be kind to me =]
I am a sysadmin at a mid size company in Brazil (with this in mind please consider the fact that hardware probably costs 10 times more than wherever you live in) and I recently received a task to arquitect a low cost, reliable form of archiving for our SIEM system(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event_management).
The system is totally based on ESXi and consists of 5 virtual machines that stores its data on a shared NFS path. The "official archiving procedure" is a cp -r based script that just moves data to a path that you specify. This NFS path is hosted by ZFS dataset running on a Oracle Solaris Express 11.0 (not my choice =]) and the last time I checked were with 13TB of used space.
The solution I have in mind for a low cost archiving device, is to use another storage server we have here running FreeNAS, move data to a properly configured pool on this new server, export the pool and store the disks. The server I have available have the following specs:
Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTE-F
Processor(s): 2 x
RAM: 96GB of 1333Mhz registered ECC
RAID Controller(s): 3 x Intel (R) RAID Controller RS2WC080 (Just JBODS configured)
Disks: 24 x 2.0TB Western Digital WD2002FAEX
Now that I introduced my task, I will list the problems I have and hope for someone willing to help me solving them:
First problem:
Today the ESXi hosts are directly connected to the solaris storage. So I will need to aquire a gigabit switch (please dont tell me to by a 10GbE or migrate to fiber, I wish I could =[ ). As I consider myself just a entusiast in this field, what should I look for in a good switch for a NAS? Thats what came to my mind:
- Good single port buffer sizes;
- Bonding capabilities;
Does anyone sugest a good Quality x Cost relation model?
Second problem:
As my first backup will have arround 8TB and I wish I could run during the weekend, what tunning suggestion do you have for maximazing throughput ? I don´t care about responsiveness as this storage will be only used for backup purposes.
