ZFS Based Storage for Medium VMWare Workload
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@donaldlandru said:
If I bring up the operations nodes only have 1CPU each and only 64GB of memory I just cringe and this goes a third direction.
That makes them PERFECT for Scale to replace when you are ready to talk about those. Literally a drop in replacement. You can match example or double to two CPU and 128GB each with their stock systems. But that is for another thread.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller That was definitely the R720, not the XD... I get to go back and do it again in a little bit.
If going for the cheaper option, you drop to the R520 instead. Makes more sense for storage. We have three of those in the lab
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@scottalanmiller said:
@donaldlandru said:
Which I can add for as cheap as $5k with RED drives or $10k with Seagate SAS drives.
WD makes RE and Red drives. Don't call them RED, it is hard to tell if you are meaning to say RE or Red. The Red Pro and SE drives fall between the Red and the RE drives in the lineup. Red and RE drives are not related. RE comes in SAS, Red is SATA only.
It's all in a name. When I say REDs I am referring to WD Red 1TB NAS Hard Drive 2.5" WD10JFCX. When I say seagate I am referring to Seagate Savvio 10K.5 900 GB 10000 RPM SAS 6-Gb/S ST9900805SS
Edit: I don't always use WD NAS (RED) drives, but when I do I use the WDIDLE tool to fix that problem
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@scottalanmiller Holy cow... can I borrow $5k ??
For $10k he could build 2 x 16TB usable storage units and use StarWind to make them happy.
(https://beta.wellston.biz/xByte SAM-SD R520.pdf) -
@donaldlandru said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@donaldlandru said:
Which I can add for as cheap as $5k with RED drives or $10k with Seagate SAS drives.
WD makes RE and Red drives. Don't call them RED, it is hard to tell if you are meaning to say RE or Red. The Red Pro and SE drives fall between the Red and the RE drives in the lineup. Red and RE drives are not related. RE comes in SAS, Red is SATA only.
It's all in a name. When I say REDs I am referring to WD Red 1TB NAS Hard Drive 2.5" WD10JFCX. When I say seagate I am referring to Seagate Savvio 10K.5 900 GB 10000 RPM SAS 6-Gb/S ST9900805SS
Edit: I don't always use WD NAS (RED) drives, but when I do I use the WDIDLE tool to fix that problem
Boy those have gotten cheap!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236600
But they will be terrible slow. Those are 5400 RPM SATA drives.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller Holy cow... can I borrow $5k ??
For $10k he could build 2 x 16TB usable storage units and use StarWind to make them happy.
(https://beta.wellston.biz/xByte SAM-SD R520.pdf)Starwind or DRBD. Both are free.
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So which way should he look for his dev environment?
A new single host with tons of local disk and possibly ditch all three of the current dev boxes? or
A new single host with tons of local disk, and max the disk out on the newest (planning to keep) dev box, and manually split the load as possible? or
build a SAM-SD and connect the three current dev boxes to it?Any reason that all of these solutions couldn't be done with XByte purchased systems?
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@Dashrender said:
Any reason that all of these solutions couldn't be done with XByte purchased systems?
Only that he is an HP shop and they are Dell.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Any reason that all of these solutions couldn't be done with XByte purchased systems?
Only that he is an HP shop and they are Dell.
Is there an HP equivalent?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Any reason that all of these solutions couldn't be done with XByte purchased systems?
Only that he is an HP shop and they are Dell.
Is there an HP equivalent?
Nearly everything in their lineups has an equivalent that is close on the other side.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Any reason that all of these solutions couldn't be done with XByte purchased systems?
Only that he is an HP shop and they are Dell.
Is there an HP equivalent?
Nearly everything in their lineups has an equivalent that is close on the other side.
Well I was mainly meaning in the secondary market/refurbished area. I knew that HP and Dell have mostly equivalent server lineups.
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Oh, I see. ServerMonkey would be a place to start.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@donaldlandru said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@donaldlandru said:
Which I can add for as cheap as $5k with RED drives or $10k with Seagate SAS drives.
WD makes RE and Red drives. Don't call them RED, it is hard to tell if you are meaning to say RE or Red. The Red Pro and SE drives fall between the Red and the RE drives in the lineup. Red and RE drives are not related. RE comes in SAS, Red is SATA only.
It's all in a name. When I say REDs I am referring to WD Red 1TB NAS Hard Drive 2.5" WD10JFCX. When I say seagate I am referring to Seagate Savvio 10K.5 900 GB 10000 RPM SAS 6-Gb/S ST9900805SS
Edit: I don't always use WD NAS (RED) drives, but when I do I use the WDIDLE tool to fix that problem
Boy those have gotten cheap!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236600
But they will be terrible slow. Those are 5400 RPM SATA drives.
This is why I made my comment about not using the "RED" drives earlier, they don't have the PRO in 2.5" form factor; however, the savvios are twice the speed at 4x the price.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@donaldlandru said:
I agree we do lack true HA in the production side as there is a single weak link (one storage array), the solution here depends on our move to Office 365 as that would take most of the operations load off of the network and change the requirements completely.
Good deal. We use O365, it is mostly great.
If I can sell them on Office 365 this time around (third times a charm), but that is for a different thread
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If you need an Office 365 partner, you know where to fine one
cough.... cough.... @ntg
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There is a software defined (ZFS) solution- Nexenta- that is specifically organized for Enterprise use and that includes comprehensive hardware and software support. Using Super Micro Reference Architecture, a single head node (HA optional), 200GB L2Arc & Zil dedicated cache, RAID Z2, a 3 yr NBD on-site HW warranty, 3 yr. x 7x24 SW support would run under your $15K budget.
Nexenta includes:
ā¢ Certified for Virtual / VDI/Cluster/Big Data/Cloud/Archive & Data Protection Environments
ā¢ Standard functionality includes Hybrid storage pools (HDD, SSD, Flash), Auto-tiering, in-line Compression/De-duplication, Replication, unlimited Snapshots, only 2 plug-in options if required: High Availability and FC support
ā¢ Uses Scalable Read & Write Cache to accelerate Read/Write performance, leveraging low cost spinning disk but also allowing using 10K/15K/SSD pools to achieve demanding IOPs and throughput
ā¢ Unmatched Data Integrity- continuous integrity checking, built-in self healing, 256b check sum copy-on-write, seamlessly addresses intermittent faulty devices, single/dual/triple parity RAID or RAID 10
ā¢ Perpetual licensing w/incremental capacity expansion. No replacement of core equipment, minimizing TCO and cost of growth at a fraction of dedicated hardware solutions.International Computer Concepts (www.ICC-USA.com) has been building high performance/ high density compute & storage for commercial, government, research and education and is a premier integrator of NexentaStor. For more info, I can be reached at
Brian Hershenhouse, [email protected] or 877 422-8729 x109. -
I'm pretty sure he actually mentioned Nexenta in the original post. That was the SAM-SD option that he was considering.
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Hi Scott,
Donald mentioned SM and referenced generic ZFS (could be Oracle, OpenIndiana, FreeBSD, etc.) solutions which have uncoordinated HW, SW and support. Nexenta is packaged to compete with EMC, NetApp, etc. as primary storage in the Commercial market.
If you would like to get an overview, please feel free to ping me.
Best. -
You are correct, sir, I must have imagined it.
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Following up on this one as I see it getting some traffic today. How did this project go @donaldlandru
