I have acquired a few servers for basic infrastructure services at work (mail/ftp/proxy/jails/etc) and would like suggestions on the best ZFS layout for the hardware. I've been searching through the docs, but I'm not clear on what's best.
Hardware:
These are the options I see:
I'm leaning toward #2, but I don't want to waste the SSD capacity if there is a better way to architect it. These machines will eventually have maybe 30-40 jails of various services with nothing individually I/O heavy.
Thanks!
Hardware:
- 8-way Nehalem
- 2x1TB enterprise SATA
- 2x160GB Intel SSDs
- 48GB RAM
These are the options I see:
- Install OS on UFS SSDs and create ZFS on SATA with SSD cache partitions
- Install OS on SATA and use mirrored cache on SSD
- Install OS on ZFS SSD pool and create separate SATA pool
I'm leaning toward #2, but I don't want to waste the SSD capacity if there is a better way to architect it. These machines will eventually have maybe 30-40 jails of various services with nothing individually I/O heavy.
Thanks!