Hi guys, I'm designing a couple of new servers for VM storage to connect with NFS to a Xen and KVM.
I have experience in Nexenta environments but I decided to use FreeNAS because of their extensive community and constant development.
My idea is to use now a 4TB of data (up to 8.5TB) for mail servers, webservers and 80% reading tasks.
I will use the main FreeNAS to host VM and second will have a dual purpose, for backups and replication of main FreeNAS in case of catastrophic failure.
The network will be 4x1GB to hypervisors (upgradeable to 10G) and 10G in each of FreeNAS servers.
I decided to use HGST NAS drives because of their recommendation for many people, although I admit that I have always been a user of the Ultrastar drives.
Main FreeNAS (for VM storage):
Dual Xeon E5 2670
64GB DDR3 ECC Reg
Motherboard Supermicro X9DAX-7F
8 x 3TB HGST NAS Mirroring (RAID10) + 1 x 3TB HGST NAS hotspare (connected to LSI HBA 2108 + 2 SATA3 internal ports of Supermicro motherboard)
L2ARC: 2 x 500GB Crucial MX200 (800GB usable storage) in RAID0 connected to LSI 2208 1GB Cache
ZIL: 1 x Intel S3610 200GB (20GB for FreeNAS and 40GB for SLOG) connected as RAID0 to LSI 2208 1GB Cache.
Storage network to hypervisors: Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G (upgradeable to 2x10G)
Replication network (to second FreeNAS): Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G
Replication and Backup FreeNAS:
Dual Xeon E5 2670
64GB DDR3 ECC Reg
Motherboard Supermicro X9DAX-7F
5 x 6TB HGST NAS Mirroring (RAIDZ2) (connected to LSI HBA 2108)
L2ARC: 1 x 500GB Crucial MX200 (400GB usable storage) in RAID0 connected to LSI 2208 1GB Cache
ZIL: 1 x Intel S3610 200GB (20GB for FreeNAS and 40GB for SLOG) connected as RAID0 to LSI 2208 1GB Cache.
Storage network to hypervisors: Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G (upgradeable to 2x10G)
Replication network (to main FreeNAS): Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G
Thank you.
I have experience in Nexenta environments but I decided to use FreeNAS because of their extensive community and constant development.
My idea is to use now a 4TB of data (up to 8.5TB) for mail servers, webservers and 80% reading tasks.
I will use the main FreeNAS to host VM and second will have a dual purpose, for backups and replication of main FreeNAS in case of catastrophic failure.
The network will be 4x1GB to hypervisors (upgradeable to 10G) and 10G in each of FreeNAS servers.
I decided to use HGST NAS drives because of their recommendation for many people, although I admit that I have always been a user of the Ultrastar drives.
Main FreeNAS (for VM storage):
Dual Xeon E5 2670
64GB DDR3 ECC Reg
Motherboard Supermicro X9DAX-7F
8 x 3TB HGST NAS Mirroring (RAID10) + 1 x 3TB HGST NAS hotspare (connected to LSI HBA 2108 + 2 SATA3 internal ports of Supermicro motherboard)
L2ARC: 2 x 500GB Crucial MX200 (800GB usable storage) in RAID0 connected to LSI 2208 1GB Cache
ZIL: 1 x Intel S3610 200GB (20GB for FreeNAS and 40GB for SLOG) connected as RAID0 to LSI 2208 1GB Cache.
Storage network to hypervisors: Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G (upgradeable to 2x10G)
Replication network (to second FreeNAS): Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G
Replication and Backup FreeNAS:
Dual Xeon E5 2670
64GB DDR3 ECC Reg
Motherboard Supermicro X9DAX-7F
5 x 6TB HGST NAS Mirroring (RAIDZ2) (connected to LSI HBA 2108)
L2ARC: 1 x 500GB Crucial MX200 (400GB usable storage) in RAID0 connected to LSI 2208 1GB Cache
ZIL: 1 x Intel S3610 200GB (20GB for FreeNAS and 40GB for SLOG) connected as RAID0 to LSI 2208 1GB Cache.
Storage network to hypervisors: Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G (upgradeable to 2x10G)
Replication network (to main FreeNAS): Network Card SFP+ with 1 x 10G
Thank you.
