[Moosefs-users] MooseFS Recommendations

[Quenten G. <QG...@on...>]

Hi Everyone,

We are currently looking at using MooseFS in our environment to store virtual machines/iscsi targets on.

So far I must say it looks excellent when compared to the other offers out there I still haven't found anything that is easy to setup and seems to "just work" so far on ubuntu 10LTS.

So I'm after some recommendations on number of servers and number of drives per server. I've found a couple of benchmarks around the place and would like to hear form fellow users what kind of implementation you maybe using and its use case and if you've come across any issues so far?

We are thinking along the lines of a Metadata server Virtualised HA or FT using vmware, A virtualised Backup Metadata Server with 4 physical chunk servers w/ 8 x 3TB 7200rpm SATA Disks using ZFS on the individual disks for chunk integrity (not using raidz) in each backed into 4 x 1GBE LACP Linked Ports per physical server.

Any infomation you maybe able to share is greatly appericated :)

Regards,
Quenten Grasso