[Andreas Aanerud]

At our house , I have tested a lot on a “simple” 12 bay shelf, with a Dell H800 hw raid card (Level 5, 6 10, 50 and 5 + 5 mirror) , and now i have used LSI 9211-8i to also test ZFS and i have to say, im deeply impressed.

There is a lot of hard geeking to do, but if u sett it up right, you will gain a lot of performance, and zfs has some other cool features. like nfs sharing built in the file system, and compression, and as mentioned checksums, on the comercial front you have “NexentraStor” (OpenIndiana / SUN) and “ixsystems” (Freenas / FreeBSD) , you also have, napp-it a pluggin for a lot of systems, but that runs best on Omni-OS

I think i have used over a year now for testing, and we landed on FreeBSD 9.1 with Freenas (with comercial support from ixsystems)

Some interesting links that i have picked up ower the year.

https://hansdeleenheer.blogspot.no/2012/07/nexenta-scale-and-cluster.html
https://calomel.org/zfs_raid_speed_capacity.html
https://catn.com/2012/05/11/openindiana-vs-nexentastor-vs-freenas/
https://www.zfsbuild.com/2013/01/25/zfsbuild2012-nexenta-vs-freenas-vs-zfsguru/

Best “old” video explaining zfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KesLwobps

[Andreas Aanerud]

Hey Bob,
I have read at least most of you’re posts, they are great =)
Think this is the first time I’m posting, and not always reading.

Last year i build a storage system for our company, we got 2 Flame systems, and a davinci resolve,
so we had to get them integrated and working on the same transfer/work storage. So with all the knowledge from Creative Cow forum’s, and a lot of googling, we built a ZFS System based on Open Solaris, with Napp-it, and the core is a 10GbE infrastructure with a 10GbE Dell 8024 switch, the NIC´s is ATTO Fast Frame 12 on the mac, and Intel AT2 on the Linux machines.

Speed on NFS shares is around 550 MB R/W so i have to say, 10GbE is kinda fast and cheep, of course, its a lot of “setup” around it. But hey, that´s just fun 😉

Glad that otters are testing 10GbE more and more. I think if the transfer protocol like NFS is more optimized then we can look at bigger and bigger systems that will work together without lots of fibre gear, locked LUNs and ISCSI Devices.

Best
Andreas