Treebeard
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- Jan 15, 2013
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Hi all,
I'm planning on building a FreeNAS-based server for the purpose of iSCSI storage. It'll be serving two Hyper-V failover cluster nodes.
As far as the FreeNAS box goes, I've been allowed a budget of £3,500 and have come up with the following important bits:
Asus Z9PE-D16 server mainboard
2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.0GHz CPUs
16GB RAM
16x 1TB Seagate ST1000NM0001 Constellation ES HDDs
Adaptec 71605 or 51645 RAID card
I haven't been able to find the Adaptec RAID card in the FreeBSD hardware compatibility list, would this pose a problem? I don't want to buy £500 worth of RAID card only for it to not work...
I would like to use ZFS for the storage, what would be the best way of configuring the drives? Should I put the RAID card into SATA-mode and use a form of RAIDZ, or is there a better way?
I've not used FreeNAS extensively, so I'm completely open to suggestions and comments.
Cheers,
Tom
I'm planning on building a FreeNAS-based server for the purpose of iSCSI storage. It'll be serving two Hyper-V failover cluster nodes.
As far as the FreeNAS box goes, I've been allowed a budget of £3,500 and have come up with the following important bits:
Asus Z9PE-D16 server mainboard
2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.0GHz CPUs
16GB RAM
16x 1TB Seagate ST1000NM0001 Constellation ES HDDs
Adaptec 71605 or 51645 RAID card
I haven't been able to find the Adaptec RAID card in the FreeBSD hardware compatibility list, would this pose a problem? I don't want to buy £500 worth of RAID card only for it to not work...
I would like to use ZFS for the storage, what would be the best way of configuring the drives? Should I put the RAID card into SATA-mode and use a form of RAIDZ, or is there a better way?
I've not used FreeNAS extensively, so I'm completely open to suggestions and comments.
Cheers,
Tom