Applications of ZFS in small businesses
The FSB Racing Team, the University of Zagreb’s Formula Student team, is Croatia’s largest and most successful student project, producing single-seater race cars since 2003.
With a team whose compute needs grow by the year in order to remain competitive with elite European teams and a minimum IT budget to fulfill them, we will explore how ZFS has managed to provide high-performance storage for our workstations at minimum cost.
Specifically, we’ll go through:
- The intrinsic benefits of ZFS for small businesses with surprisingly high compute requirements
- How we’ve assembled our little pool at a relatively moderate cost
- How we’ve integated our Windows + Active Directory setup with ZFS (on Linux) storage: permission mapping & more
- The performance penalty of virtualizing storage solutions like TrueNAS
- Detailed pool performance analysis based on real-world engineering simulation workloads: ARC hitrate, compression efficiency
- Lessons learned, drawbacks, and potential pain points
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