Rockstor on multiple devices

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Hi,

I have recently joined the forum and became an Rockstor OpenCollective subscriber. Currently are planning on using Rockstor on multiple devices for personal home use, 2 of which are to be storing data for my home lab virtualisation hosts.

What would you recommend to get the most out of the devices, for the most stability please?

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@John1 welcome to the Rockstor community.

Are you looking for HW recommendations, or whether it makes sense to have multiple instances of Rockstor running on different machines?

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As far as your intent and questions, you seem to want a setup very similar to mine. Soo, here are some blanks to fill in:

  1. What is your budget
  2. How many THREADS do you require (for virtualization etc.)
  3. What are your storage needs in TeraBytes (Petabytes?)
  4. How large or small or mixed are your files
  5. How fast does your LAN have to work to give satisfactory performance
  6. What does your crash redundancy and backup requirements look like

Obviously ECC memory would be preferred and for cost savings SATA-III devices for storage.

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I already have 2 of the devices that are going to be used. They are going to be providing storage and nothing more.

The virtualisation will be provided by two other identical specified servers, which will be running XCP-ng. My 2 initial Rockstor instances will be providing shared storage.

Server 1 - HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8 upgraded to 16GB DDR3 ECC, Intel Xeon Quad Core with HT and 4TB SATA3.

Server 2 - Dell PowerEdge R620 - Intel Xeon 6 Core with HT, 24GB DDR3 ECC and 4TB SAS2.

The file sizes will vary from a couple of gigabytes potentially on Server 2 up to a few TB, this is due that server supports several hundred TB storage max.

I’m just wondering how I would if it’s possible to get them on the same channel, as well as how much it would cost, namely the same one that you get through OpenCollective?

@Tex1954 By the way SAS drive interface is much faster (up to 12 GB/s depending on whether it’s SAS3), as well as more reliable.

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Well, so far as I know, putting all the installs on the Testing Updates will (manually) keep them all updated for free if you don’t mind. Otherwise, you could get the paid Stable Updates version and run that. Since speed doesn’t seem to be an issue, if OpenSUSE supports Dell and HP hardware, then no issue there.

I use Rockstor ONLY as a NAS and with only one or two possible Rockons. When the final release candidate comes out and my new NAS setup is running, I’ll probably got back to the paid support versions for the two main setups and stay on testing for the third repurposed setup.
And yes, SAS is cool, but out of my budget.

Those Dells are nice setups, but fan noise always bugged me on rack mount stuff. The HP is a cool little setup as well.

I’ll leave the software to software folks being a hardware guy myself. The setups I run are geared more towards speed on a 10G LAN rather that storage size…

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