KevinM
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I've built 4 36-bay Supermicro FreeNAS 6 x 6 RAIDZ2 boxes over the years for tier3 storage. Raw performance wasn't a primary design consideration, but now we're looking for a storage solution for another DR site. Preliminary pricing the from commercial storage vendors would eat up most of the DR budget.
Here's the criteria:
200 TB useable (ideal case but could be less to start)
Fast enough to run a production environment on (mixed bag of AD, Exchange, about a dozen SQL servers, 100 terminal servers, and maybe another 100-200 VMs of different types.
Storage will most likely be presented via iSCSI.
I'm assuming that spinning disks cannot be made performant enough, even with mirrored pairs, ZIL/L2ARC, lots of memory, etc. Is this a safe assumption?
The Supermicro E1CR48L looks interesting. With 4 TB SSDs I'd get 192 TB raw and realistically 70 TB useable. I'd probably be looking at 110k or so for that, plus maybe 15-20k for a replication target box with 3.5" drives.
Is there a better solution out there that would get me more space that would run at or near Nimble speeds for maybe 130k all-in?
Here's the criteria:
200 TB useable (ideal case but could be less to start)
Fast enough to run a production environment on (mixed bag of AD, Exchange, about a dozen SQL servers, 100 terminal servers, and maybe another 100-200 VMs of different types.
Storage will most likely be presented via iSCSI.
I'm assuming that spinning disks cannot be made performant enough, even with mirrored pairs, ZIL/L2ARC, lots of memory, etc. Is this a safe assumption?
The Supermicro E1CR48L looks interesting. With 4 TB SSDs I'd get 192 TB raw and realistically 70 TB useable. I'd probably be looking at 110k or so for that, plus maybe 15-20k for a replication target box with 3.5" drives.
Is there a better solution out there that would get me more space that would run at or near Nimble speeds for maybe 130k all-in?