`<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Josh Barton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Josh.Barton@usurf.usu.edu" target="_blank">Josh.Barton@usurf.usu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am hoping to build a server with 15+ drives managed in ZFS that will run a 1TB+ postgres database.<br>
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In the past I purchased an HP Proliant DL380P Gen 8 but it had a "Smart Array Controller" that prevented us from hot swapping drives. It also seemed to haveless IO channels than might be good when running a box with 16 drives.<br>
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What would you recommend for either a complete server configuration or at the very least a disk controller for running this environment?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We've just gone for something similar. I've covered it in longer form here:<br><br> <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/supermicro-illumos-compatible-server.html">http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/supermicro-illumos-compatible-server.html</a><br><br></div><div>But basically, we've got the Supermicro <a href="http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/chassis/2U/216/SC216BAC-R920LP.cfm">SC216BAC-R920LPB</a> chassis with<br></div><div>the <a href="http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRi-T4_.cfm">X10DRi-T4+</a> motherboard and 3 LSI 9300-8i HBAs; then Intel 3510 boot<br></div><div>drives and 3610 data drives. Built last week, but everything's working fine<br></div><div>so far.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(Question: why 15+ drives? Given that you can easily get 1.8TB SSDs these<br></div><div>days, I'm not sure why you need so many drives.)<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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