Friday, March 27, 2015

New SANs Build

Custom built two new NAS/SANs. 16 x 4 TB SATA3 drives in RAID 10 ZFS, 64 GB of RAM, 4 hot swap 750w PSUs, 2 Haswell CPUs, 2 16GB USB3 drives with FreeNAS in read only mode.  Attached storage to Xenserver through 2 LACP bonded connections per host and 4 pair LACP bonded connections from each NAS.

Update: We later switch to a Chelsio 10G fiber cards with two ports per card on each device for direct connect between each host and each SAN and used iSCSI multipathing. This yielded extremely better performance than the 4x1Gb nics in LACP.




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