recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

[Stefan Hagen]

Hi Patrick,

* Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>smbios.system.product="ProLiant MicroServer Gen8"
>CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz (2294.80-MHz K8-class CPU)
>
>16 GB RAM, FreeBSD installation was no problem at all.

You got me. I just double checked. 16GB is the limit. You're right.

>What do you mean by "JBOD support"? Disable RAID in the systems BIOS
>setup, put ZFS on AHCI drives ...

Activating JBOD deactivates the B120i raid controller. Unfortnately the 
temperature sensor is somehow controlled by the raid controller. So enabling 
JBOD technically works, but the machine is a lot louder than with enabled
raid. As a workaround I've built 4 raid arrays with one disk each.

It works, but it doesn't feel right to me.

It's my home file server sitting basically next to my monitor. In an office 
environment, you probably don't care about the noise so much.

See: 
https://community.hpe.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-Netservers/MicroServer-Gen8-is-noisy/td-p/6171563

Best Regards,
Stefan