I have gotten my hands on an Oracle ZFS 7120 Appliance. All disks are wiped, no original OS on it. So I have installed TrueNAS on it, and it seems to work.
Now I wonder how I get the most performace/free space out of it, together with the safety of my data. I want to use RAID-Z2.
So how do I configure the disks/volumes ?
The server is equipped with:
12 x SAS 7200 RPM 2 TB disk on separate controller
4 x 24 Gb disk on Sun 541-3731 XTA-FAS-S3IE96GB 96GB PCIe Flash Accelerator F20 SAS HBA
2 x SATA SSD 120 Gb disk on MB SATA controller
The server has 48 GB RAM.
I can read that it is recommended to install TrueNAS on a SSD type disk, not USB (The server has internal USB key slot)
So, how do I get most performance and storage out of it ?
Should I use the 2 x SSD for storage (ZIL, L2ARC whatever it is called) or install TrueNAS on the as OS boot disk ?
Or should I use 1 or 2 x 24 Gb drives on the PCIe Flash card for TrueNAS OS boot drive ?
Or maybe something else ?
The primary use will be as VMWare ESXi shared storage. I will install a dual FC 8 Gbit/s HBA adapter in the server.
Any help is appreciated
Now I wonder how I get the most performace/free space out of it, together with the safety of my data. I want to use RAID-Z2.
So how do I configure the disks/volumes ?
The server is equipped with:
12 x SAS 7200 RPM 2 TB disk on separate controller
4 x 24 Gb disk on Sun 541-3731 XTA-FAS-S3IE96GB 96GB PCIe Flash Accelerator F20 SAS HBA
2 x SATA SSD 120 Gb disk on MB SATA controller
The server has 48 GB RAM.
I can read that it is recommended to install TrueNAS on a SSD type disk, not USB (The server has internal USB key slot)
So, how do I get most performance and storage out of it ?
Should I use the 2 x SSD for storage (ZIL, L2ARC whatever it is called) or install TrueNAS on the as OS boot disk ?
Or should I use 1 or 2 x 24 Gb drives on the PCIe Flash card for TrueNAS OS boot drive ?
Or maybe something else ?
The primary use will be as VMWare ESXi shared storage. I will install a dual FC 8 Gbit/s HBA adapter in the server.
Any help is appreciated