See also: Sonora Communications Data Center

See also: napp-it ZFS Storage Server

See also: RAID Controllers

See also: SAS and SATA Controllers

See also: Drive Mounting Trays

See also: High Performance Networking

http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2010/04/ten-ways-easily-improve-oracle-solaris-zfs-filesystem-performance

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide

http://info.nexenta.com/rs/nexenta/images/nexenta_hardware_supported_list.pdf

12-Drive Chassis (3.5“) - $982.26 - http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/826/SC826BE26-R920W.cfm

2-Drive Bracket (2.5”) - $48.50 - MCP-220-82609-0N

• Dual-Expander Backplane
• 920W Redundant Power Supply (Platinum)
• 12x 3.5“ Drive Trays
• 2x 2.5” Drive Trays (optional)

• Use this head unit with a JBOD for disk drives

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/1026/SYS-1026T-6RF_.cfm

Supermicro SYS-1026T-6RFT+ - $1,501.17

• 1U
• 2x Socket LGA1366
• 8x 2.5” Drive Bays
• LSI 2108 Storage Controller
  • 2x I-PASS Connectors
• 2x GbE
• 2x 10GbE (SFP+)
• 700W Redundant Power Supply

• These servers can serve as head units plus have many hot-swap drive bays
• These all need 10GbE NICs
• These servers do not have dual SAS repeaters
  • The backplane must have dual SAS repeaters for HA
• These servers come with AOC-SAS2LP-H8iR RAID controllers

2U - $1,832.75:

• 12x 3.5“ SAS/SATA Drive Bays
• 920W Redundant Power Supplies
• http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6027/SSG-6027R-E1R12N.cfm

3U - $1,935.35:

• 16x 3.5” SAS/SATA Drive Bays
• 920W Redundant Power Supplies
• http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/6037/SSG-6037R-E1R16N.cfm

4U - $2,079.17:

• 24x 3.5“ SAS/SATA Drive Bays
• 920W Redundant Power Supplies
• 2x 2.5” OS Drive Tray (MCP-220-84606-0N)
• http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R24N.cfm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113026

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113028

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100008494%2050001157%20600048497&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA%201366

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100008494%2050001157%20600303512&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA%202011

http://malabs.com/product/D3-16R8GS1

1. Samsung 8GB M393B1K70DH0-CK0 - $61.28
2. Dual Rank
3. HCL listed
4. 32GB RAM - $61.28 x 4 = $245.12
5. 64GB RAM - $61.28 x 8 = $490.24

http://malabs.com/product/D3-13R8GH1

• Hynix DDR3-1333 8GB ECC/REG Original Server Memory - $68.50
• 48GB RAM - $68.50 x 6 = $411

• Supermicro BTR-0018L-0000-LSI - $175.10 - in stock
• Supermicro BTR-0018L-KIT LSI iBBU07 extension kit - $51.50

• L2ARC - Adaptive Replacement Cache
• One or more inexpensive MLC SSD - Not mirrored
• Add RAM before implementing L2ARC

Power Loss Data Protection] [[http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Separate_Log_Devices|Solaris ZFS Best Practices For Log Devices

http://info.nexenta.com/rs/nexenta/images/nexenta_hardware_supported_list.pdf

http://www.nexentastor.org/boards/1/topics/972

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1591181

• Assigned per pool
  • Shared by all datasets (file systems, volumes, clones) contained within the pool
• One or more SSD
  • Not Mirrored
  • RAID0 for more performance
• Need SSD tuned for writes and long life
  • SLC may be best, but more expensive
• With supercapacitor to guaranty writes are completed
  • 3rd-gen Intel SLC SSDs should meet this requirement
  • X25-E (eMLC, supercap)
  • Vertex 3 Pro
  • P400

http://www.ddrdrive.com/

http://www.ddrdrive.com/zil_rw_revelation.pdf

http://www.ddrdrive.com/zil_accelerator.pdf

Why SAS Expanders

One SAS2 expander: $1,737.47

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E16-RJBOD1.cfm

Two SAS2 expanders: $1,994.48

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E26-RJBOD1.cfm

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3963/zfs-building-testing-and-benchmarking

http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php

See ZFS.