I've been watching this thread with interest. I'm in the beginning of setting up a new server with some teeth. Actually built from nice parts rather than what I had laying around or was cheap at the time. :) Current hardware: <br>
<br>AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 (2.8Ghz 3-core) <br>8GB ECC RAM<br>Asus M4N82 Motherboard<br><br>Those bits are currently running memtest86 for the next day or so to make sure they are working well. Any other stress tests that might be a good idea? <br>
<br>I will be adding 2 8-port SATA cards to run the 12 drive rack I have installed in the case. The drives will be in 2 6-disk arrays. The boot drives will run from the motherboard ports in a mirror. <br><br>I know I want OpenSolaris for raidz and zfs. I would like to have this same machine run other services like a mythbackend (primarily for commflagging and transcoding, but I might move the master backend to this server) that don't seem to really exist for Solaris. I could probably build the source and get just a backend running, but it would be faster for me to run a VM with Linux so I can use a package for it. I also like the idea of partitioning things like Asterisk off into VMs for ease of setup and the security concerns. <br>
<br>It seems to me I could get this all working with OpenSolaris as Dom0 with Linux guests. Does this seem like a reasonable solution? Any hints for configuration? <br>