headconnect
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Just been thinking a bit about my 'old' Win 2k8 server, and how I might actually play around with a bit of iSCSI and whatnot..
Without rational thought, I'm considering setting up a virtual machine on my windows server through hyper-v running freenas, exposing two 1.5tb disks directly to freenas, setting them up with ZFS (and giving it perhaps 6 of the available 16gb ram) as mirrors, then exposing them back to the Win2k8 server via iSCSI.
Initially I'm thinking of it as an 'expensive' alternative to software raid-1 :)
Mainly, I've never used iSCSI, and I'm thinking on an internal 10gb network between the host and guest, there shouldn't be much performance loss, so using freenas as a software raid controller might not be so crazy.
Also, thinking for the future - should I add a few more disks (say, five more) and put them in RAID-Z, I'm thinking i have a better chance of them surviving a hardware/OS fault if they're set up in FreeNAS rather than software RAID-5.
What do we think? Am i completely out of my mind? Am I having too much fun? Am I a masochist? Discuss below! :)
Without rational thought, I'm considering setting up a virtual machine on my windows server through hyper-v running freenas, exposing two 1.5tb disks directly to freenas, setting them up with ZFS (and giving it perhaps 6 of the available 16gb ram) as mirrors, then exposing them back to the Win2k8 server via iSCSI.
Initially I'm thinking of it as an 'expensive' alternative to software raid-1 :)
Mainly, I've never used iSCSI, and I'm thinking on an internal 10gb network between the host and guest, there shouldn't be much performance loss, so using freenas as a software raid controller might not be so crazy.
Also, thinking for the future - should I add a few more disks (say, five more) and put them in RAID-Z, I'm thinking i have a better chance of them surviving a hardware/OS fault if they're set up in FreeNAS rather than software RAID-5.
What do we think? Am i completely out of my mind? Am I having too much fun? Am I a masochist? Discuss below! :)