[PVE-User] Storage Server Recommendations Please (JR Richardson)

[pve at geniorxt.de]

Hello JR,

You may look for open-e jovian dss [1].
It is a linux and zfs based storage distribution with a soho(capped storage) and commercial license.
This needs no special hardware and is not bound to any vendor.
It's comparable with TrueNAS but instead based on Linux.

Greetings
Benjamin

1: https://www.open-e.com/products/jovian-data-storage-software/general-information/


> Hi All,
> I'm thinking about upgrading to 10 Gig storage network for my
> clusters. Current servers are dell 610 with H700 Raid controller, 2
> drives in Raid1 for OS and 4 drives in Raid10 for NFS shared storage
> to the hypervisor nodes. Network is 2xGigabit up links to all servers
> and storage. Load from the hypervisors is are about 200 Linux servers
> and about 20 Win servers. I'm not seeing any issue currently in normal
> operations, but I can see disk IO wait states on storage servers
> periodically when some of the VMs are booting or tasking storage,
> creating new VM disks. All storage array disks are currently 15K SAS
> spinners, no SSDs.
> I'm considering upgrading to SSD caching server with conventional
> storage disk back end. Main thing is to get network up to 10Gig.
> Building servers from scratch is OK but I'd also like to hear about
> some turnkey options. Storage requirement is currently under 10TB.
> Any suggestions are welcome.
> Thanks.
> JR
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> JR Richardson
> Engineering for the Masses
> Chasing the Azeotrope