Homelab storage upgrade

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is the SSD for ZIL and L2ARC?

ZIL. I actually have another disk that I'd put in for L2ARC, but the 6x2.5" bay I have in the optical bay is full now (4 from the P410, 1 from the SATA and one from the eSATA) and I can't see how I'd squeeze any extra ports out of the server without a fresh build (the other PCI-E slot has an Intel Gb NIC in it) and extra expenditure which the missus would likely murder me for. I was seriously considering the ML110 G6 that _spoon had for sale, but... see previous sentence.

On re-reading - I considered splitting the SSD into 2 VMDKs, but assumed that the performance hit would be too high - am I wrong on this? Happy to tinker, as it's obviously just a home lab.

[Moby-Dick]

Ah you run your Nexenta as a VM ? I've a colleague who runs is ZFS storage on bare metal - the NIC is his rate limiting step.

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yep, still need the overhead of the extra RAM on the Microserver. Once I can stretch to another NUC I'll go baremetal I think.

Moved from RDM for ZIL to splitting the disk into 2 VMDKs for ZIL and VMDK (20Gb each, with a little extra for hostcache) and got about 5-6% performance increase.