luca1001
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- Jan 10, 2020
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Hi all,
I'm setting up freenas 11.3 on a Dell R620, server has the following specs:
- 2x E5-2670 / 128 GB RAM
- dual SFP+ / dual I350 daughter card
- H710 controller in IT mode
- 8x MX500 1TB SSD drives
The main purpose of this server is to provide iSCSI storage to a separate ESXi 6.7 host via the dual SFP+ ports. ESXi hosts a couple of windows VMs (low load), along with 5/6 linux VMs ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS that can have quite intensive I/O (database) load. The linux VMs are similar as far as OS type / configuration. I will backup the VMs periodically, and downtime for rebuilding after a failed SSD drive is not a big deal.
Being new to freenas, I'm not sure how to setup storage.
- I've been reading this thread but having a hard time translating it to concrete storage configuration): should should I use some kind of mirror-based setup, or a single raid-z / zvol at 50% capacity?
- should I enable de-duplication?
- SLOG, ZIL, L2ARC?
I'm setting up freenas 11.3 on a Dell R620, server has the following specs:
- 2x E5-2670 / 128 GB RAM
- dual SFP+ / dual I350 daughter card
- H710 controller in IT mode
- 8x MX500 1TB SSD drives
The main purpose of this server is to provide iSCSI storage to a separate ESXi 6.7 host via the dual SFP+ ports. ESXi hosts a couple of windows VMs (low load), along with 5/6 linux VMs ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS that can have quite intensive I/O (database) load. The linux VMs are similar as far as OS type / configuration. I will backup the VMs periodically, and downtime for rebuilding after a failed SSD drive is not a big deal.
Being new to freenas, I'm not sure how to setup storage.
- I've been reading this thread but having a hard time translating it to concrete storage configuration): should should I use some kind of mirror-based setup, or a single raid-z / zvol at 50% capacity?
- should I enable de-duplication?
- SLOG, ZIL, L2ARC?