Twitch504c
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- Jan 4, 2014
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Hello Everyone,
Currently My Problem is I have a bunch of Small NAS servers served up as different network drives to most users in my windows enviroment. My problem is this we have about 240tb of Space spread out over 15 servers. (Previous admin would just add a new NAS server when there we getting close to full)
What i would like to try to do is consolidate down to say 8 Servers. and Present it as one Network Drive. My question is this possible with freenas by itself?
My idea was each of the server will contain 24x 3tb Drives in RAIDZ2. Serving about 66TB from each box. From there i was Serve the 66TB To a FreeNas Box acting as a kind of Filer Head for the 8 Boxes and run RAIDz2 Across 8x ISCSI Drives giving me a combined total of 396TB of Space.
Im trying to figure out of this is even worth the Effort or not. The head Server would have 6 10G Ports (4 for the Other FreeNAS boxes and 2 for LAN Connectivity) and Each FreeNas box would have 2 10G Ports each (for multipath).
Ive been told this can be done with Window's NameSpaces but this would require additionally licensing Id rather spend the money on the hardware.
FreeNAS (HeadUnit)
|
|-FreeNAS DiskUnit 1
|-FreeNAS DiskUnit 2
|-FreeNAS DiskUnit n
I personally used FreeNAS before as SAN Devices for VM Hosts and Singular Network Drives. But the space requirements for this new job are way out of range from what I am used to.
Also NetApp and EMC are out of the question because of pricing.
Currently My Problem is I have a bunch of Small NAS servers served up as different network drives to most users in my windows enviroment. My problem is this we have about 240tb of Space spread out over 15 servers. (Previous admin would just add a new NAS server when there we getting close to full)
What i would like to try to do is consolidate down to say 8 Servers. and Present it as one Network Drive. My question is this possible with freenas by itself?
My idea was each of the server will contain 24x 3tb Drives in RAIDZ2. Serving about 66TB from each box. From there i was Serve the 66TB To a FreeNas Box acting as a kind of Filer Head for the 8 Boxes and run RAIDz2 Across 8x ISCSI Drives giving me a combined total of 396TB of Space.
Im trying to figure out of this is even worth the Effort or not. The head Server would have 6 10G Ports (4 for the Other FreeNAS boxes and 2 for LAN Connectivity) and Each FreeNas box would have 2 10G Ports each (for multipath).
Ive been told this can be done with Window's NameSpaces but this would require additionally licensing Id rather spend the money on the hardware.
FreeNAS (HeadUnit)
|
|-FreeNAS DiskUnit 1
|-FreeNAS DiskUnit 2
|-FreeNAS DiskUnit n
I personally used FreeNAS before as SAN Devices for VM Hosts and Singular Network Drives. But the space requirements for this new job are way out of range from what I am used to.
Also NetApp and EMC are out of the question because of pricing.