mrstevemosher
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Hello
We currently have a VMware iSCSI POOL thats pretty critical to us. We learned a couple days ago of what not to do with our storage system the hard way so we turned to the boards. We think we're smarter at this point and trying to re architect it starting with this POOL.
For the first POOL we are going to use 8 4.3TB HGST drives. After reading "The Path to Success for Block Storage" and "Some differences between RAIDZ and mirrors, and why we use mirrors for block storage", we think 4 striped vdevs of 2 drives each should be a fit.
Are we on the right path ? Thoughts?
@HoneyBadger and a couple other folks were generous with their time on another thread to point us towards a small success for us. So here we are. Thank you.
Current system build is below. The only focus right now is our iSCSI VMware pools.
Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD
128GB DDR3 ECC
2 E5-2643 CPUs
1 Intel X520-DA2 Ethernet
1 of 3 Supermicro CSE-836 w/BPN-SAS2-EL1 Cases holds the system board
Onboard LSI SAS 2008 controller
36 4.3 HGST drives
3 Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2
1 2TB NvME Samsung
1 512GB NvME Samsung
2 1TB NvME Sabrent
2 256GB NvME Sabrent
1 4.3 IBM SAS SSD
We currently have a VMware iSCSI POOL thats pretty critical to us. We learned a couple days ago of what not to do with our storage system the hard way so we turned to the boards. We think we're smarter at this point and trying to re architect it starting with this POOL.
For the first POOL we are going to use 8 4.3TB HGST drives. After reading "The Path to Success for Block Storage" and "Some differences between RAIDZ and mirrors, and why we use mirrors for block storage", we think 4 striped vdevs of 2 drives each should be a fit.
Are we on the right path ? Thoughts?
DISK8 1.32M 14.5T
mirror 424K 3.62T
gptid/7d2d03a4-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
gptid/8dca85c8-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
mirror 96K 3.62T
gptid/782dd941-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
gptid/823a5471-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
mirror 368K 3.62T
gptid/40cff3ff-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
gptid/70d1a551-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
mirror 460K 3.62T
gptid/4a26bde8-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
gptid/59b109f4-45ff-11eb-9018-002590caf794
@HoneyBadger and a couple other folks were generous with their time on another thread to point us towards a small success for us. So here we are. Thank you.
Current system build is below. The only focus right now is our iSCSI VMware pools.
Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD
128GB DDR3 ECC
2 E5-2643 CPUs
1 Intel X520-DA2 Ethernet
1 of 3 Supermicro CSE-836 w/BPN-SAS2-EL1 Cases holds the system board
Onboard LSI SAS 2008 controller
36 4.3 HGST drives
3 Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2
1 2TB NvME Samsung
1 512GB NvME Samsung
2 1TB NvME Sabrent
2 256GB NvME Sabrent
1 4.3 IBM SAS SSD