sniper7kills Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I need to build a SAS. I know I'm going to use openfiler as the OS. Ive chosen this case: http://www.plinkusa.net/web4121.htm My questions are: What is the best way I should do raid? 1 card, Multiple cards? How can I set up this server so it is expandable? Should i just get direct attached storage? or can i buy a second case and just add an external sata ports? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Unless your committed to Openfiller you should look at Solaris 10 and ZFS + RaidZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniper7kills Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Unless your committed to Openfiller you should look at Solaris 10 and ZFS + RaidZ. That looks very interesting, I would jump on that if it were for personal use. But I'm not sure if i would want to use it in a production environment. I will keep it in mind though and keep researching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Solaris would be solid in a production environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniper7kills Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 OK, I spent most of last night looking at raidz, and i think i have a general understanding (I've never used Solaris). Raidz: you can add disks to an array its all "software" based (there is not controller like raid 5/6 etc.) the data is all check summed allowing a file to be fixed if it get corrupted. Now is there a web interface similar to Openfiler's that I can download so i don't have to do everything from the command line (major selling point for me)? Or at least one that will allow me to set up my shares (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, etc)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Its been awhile since I used it, but ZFS/RAIDZ comes with a gui - http://blogs.sun.com/talley/entry/manage_z...om_your_browser As for setting up shares, you can get a gui like netdirector or webmin might work, I'm not sure about built in options for this though. I'll ask my boss, he's just built a 22TB setup using solaris and a sun thumper box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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