Storinator configuration?

[Rehmat]

Hi all, i have been setting up a server homelab for learning various things. I just wanted to know how @LinusTech uses CentOS, Unraid, and FreeNAS.

He has mentioned that he uses windows storage spaces on the nvme server so that backup is near instant and that the Storinator uses CentOS with ZFS.

However their is a video where he mentioned that he uses FreeNAS for backup. Was this on the old server backup before he got the storinators. 

He and others have mentioned "the vault" and the "storinator". Are they the same?

 

TBH im just interested as I have  been using ubuntu 16.04LTS with ubuntu for a long time and while it works at gigabit speeds [dont have 10gbe yet] to me at least it seems kinda "janky" .

[Electronics Wizardy]

I think there using gluster + zfs + centos on the big storage boxes.

 

Why does ubuntu seems janky? it works well, its well supported, its faster. Don't see a problem with it.

 

 

[Rehmat]

@Electronics Wizardy

It's not that ubuntu with samba itself seems janky. What happened was that on ubuntu 16.04.2LTS ubuntu with samba worked really well. Over gigabit ethernet i was getting 115-120Mb/second all day long. However when i installed Ubuntu 18.04LTS with samba on a second server it was just about hitting 12Mb/second. I tried everything from using the same config as the first server and the likes. It just wouldn't work and it seems that lots of people have had the same problems. Both were using intel pcie nics and had a 840evo 120gb as a test share to make sure that there was not bottlenecks except the OS it would appear. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Rehmat said:

@Electronics Wizardy

It's not that ubuntu with samba itself seems janky. What happened was that on ubuntu 16.04.2LTS ubuntu with samba worked really well. Over gigabit ethernet i was getting 115-120Mb/second all day long. However when i installed Ubuntu 18.04LTS with samba on a second server it was just about hitting 12Mb/second. I tried everything from using the same config as the first server and the likes. It just wouldn't work and it seems that lots of people have had the same problems. Both were using intel pcie nics and had a 840evo 120gb as a test share to make sure that there was not bottlenecks except the OS it would appear. 

12mb/s seems like a 100mbit link. I have never had that problem, and can easily hit >9gb/s on samba on ubuntu with almost no tweaking, so seems like a weird error.

 

Did you test network speeds with iperf?

[Rehmat]

@Electronics Wizardy

Yep. Although in the networking tab i set the ethernet connection to forced 1gbe full duplex so maybe it was a glitch. Any chance you could share your setup software, hardware, and smb.conf file please? It would help me out very much. TBH i have no problem using a fresh install of ubuntu 16.04lts and using it. Any experience with iscsi on samba. Thinking of using it to provide storage for my R710 proxmox server.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Rehmat said:

Yep. Although in the networking tab i set the ethernet connection to forced 1gbe full duplex so maybe it was a glitch. Any chance you could share your setup software, hardware, and smb.conf file please? It would help me out very much.

The server was a dual l5640, 24gb ddr3r, 10gbe emulux nic, ubunt ubuntu 18.04 updated.

 

Nothing special in samba config file, just added my share. Don't have the config file as that server was nuked

 

ZFS mirrors of 10x 2tb hdds with 2x 200gb ssds as l2arc.

 

Try iper if it seems like a network problem. Also give nfs a shot.

[Rehmat]

@Electronics Wizardy Thanks for the help man!! Was the  server a dell r710 by any chance/

Do you have the emulex card model number? Also just thinking that it may have been a lubuntu issue as i was using lubuntu at the time as opposed to vanilla ubuntu.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 hours ago, Rehmat said:

@Electronics Wizardy Thanks for the help man!! Was the  server a dell r710 by any chance/

Do you have the emulex card model number? Also just thinking that it may have been a lubuntu issue as i was using lubuntu at the time as opposed to vanilla ubuntu.

well its a isilon x200, got it cheap from ebay.

 

IDK number, will check later, but i got about the same speed with my mellanox cards.

 

IDK the exact issue, can help troubleshoot if you can reporduce it.