I’m in the process of setting up the OS for the new NAS server, and I have to say, the OpenIndiana installer is slow. I waited 10 minutes to after seeing the Sun Copyright banner, and then 15, then 20, and eventually 30 minutes. At that point I decided to go download Freenas 9.10.1 and prepared to mount it via the IPMI on the SuperMicro Xeon D board. But low and behold we have movement! Then we stalled again. I was starting to have flashbacks of Solaris on Sun Hardware with Software RAID on 16 Drive Storage arrays running early version of ZFS.
Then I got smart, or so I thought. I took the USB Expander and removed it. Then I plugged the USB directly into the motherboard. It didn’t do a thing unfortunately.
So instead, I decided to a mount an ISO via the IPMI and go with FreeNas. So everything was going well.
Okay we are making progress
After logging in and doing some basic setup, I created the first Volume.
Speed tests were as expected, one mirror does one disk performance, 2 mirrors do two disk performance.
I still plan on installing OpenIndiana on this machine in the future and benchmarking it as well. My 10G Switch and new Card has arrived, so I’ll be sure to put those benchmarks up as well.