smartOS HPC config suggestion
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I'm configuring a brand new HPC server and am interested in using SmartOS because of it's virtualization control and zfs features. Does this configuration make sense for a SmartOS HPC, or would you recommend an alternative?
System Specs: 2x 8-core xeon 384 GB RAM 30 TB HDs with 2x512GB SSDs
Uses: - zfs for serving data to different vms, and over the network; 1 SSD for L2ARC and 1 for ZIL - typically 1-2 ubuntu instances running R and custom C/C++ code
My biggest concerns as a newbie to SmartOS and ZFS are:
(1) will I get near-metal performance from ubuntu running on SmartOS if it is the only active vm? (2) how do I serve data from the global zfs pool to the containers and other network devices?
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