vanhaakonnen
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Hello,
I have a X3430 XEON-System with 24GB of ECC memory and 6 2TB 5400rpm disks - for caching I have two 60GB and one 120GB SSDs.
The system has two gbit-nics for "normal" shares for pcs in the network and two dedicated nics for iscsi/nfs to the two esxi-hosts.
I have two or three questions about the whole thing:
a) How should I create my ZFS diskset? 2x3 disks in raidz or 3x2 disks in mirros? Where should I add the SSDs?
b) Should I use iSCSI or NFS for the ESXi hosts? The Performance should be nearly the same. But does FreeNAS itself support one protocol better then the other? What is about round-robin or load-balancing over two nics?
What performance (read/write) should I see? If it is possible to get full wire-speed (2gbit/s) speed out of two raidz´s then it would be enough...
Thanks
VanHaakonnen
I have a X3430 XEON-System with 24GB of ECC memory and 6 2TB 5400rpm disks - for caching I have two 60GB and one 120GB SSDs.
The system has two gbit-nics for "normal" shares for pcs in the network and two dedicated nics for iscsi/nfs to the two esxi-hosts.
I have two or three questions about the whole thing:
a) How should I create my ZFS diskset? 2x3 disks in raidz or 3x2 disks in mirros? Where should I add the SSDs?
b) Should I use iSCSI or NFS for the ESXi hosts? The Performance should be nearly the same. But does FreeNAS itself support one protocol better then the other? What is about round-robin or load-balancing over two nics?
What performance (read/write) should I see? If it is possible to get full wire-speed (2gbit/s) speed out of two raidz´s then it would be enough...
Thanks
VanHaakonnen
