KTrain
Dabbler
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2013
- Messages
- 36
Greetings All,
First of all I'd like to thank those who contribute to the forum. I've learned a lot in just the last few hours. Initially I started browsing the forum for ideas to fix my FreeNAS performance issues, but since have decided to join the community and learn the FreeNAS platform.
As such, I thought I'd share my first days experience as an introduction.
My Deployment: One HP DL360 G5 running FreeNAS. Serving up NFS to a vCenter 5.5 cluster with two HP DL380 G5 hosts. The result, epic fail.
Things I need to fix...
First of all I'd like to thank those who contribute to the forum. I've learned a lot in just the last few hours. Initially I started browsing the forum for ideas to fix my FreeNAS performance issues, but since have decided to join the community and learn the FreeNAS platform.
As such, I thought I'd share my first days experience as an introduction.
My Deployment: One HP DL360 G5 running FreeNAS. Serving up NFS to a vCenter 5.5 cluster with two HP DL380 G5 hosts. The result, epic fail.
Things I need to fix...
- The P400i controller in the DL360 G5 doesn't support JBOD... it needs replaced.
- The P400i is running a 5 drive Raid 5 + hot spare. It's serving up hardware raid to FreeNAS. Complete Fail.
- Only 8GB of RAM. Didn't really figure it out until I correlated the 7/8th consumption to what my Storage Array is doing.
- The nature of NFS will require more hardware to support good performance.
- People who run iSCSI instead of NFS are Cray' Cray'
- Intel NICs are important
- ZIL =/= L2ARC
- A lot of folks struggle to understand Enterprise hardware and like to complain (what else is new?).