Re: Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread Darin Perusich
You'll likely need to disable cache flushes or you're going to see poor performance to any mailspools on the SAN because of the array NVRAM. You can either disable this on the SAN or by setting a kernel parameter. See http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Cache_Flushe

Re: Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread Pascal Gienger
James M McNutt schrieb: > We are currently running Solaris 9 with VxVM/VxFS > and looking to move to Solaris 10 with ZFS. > > I was looking for some feedback from those using ZFS. > > what type of system? 2x X4200 with 32 GB RAM each > what type of storage? 2x FiberChannel Storage Systems in

Re: Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread James M McNutt
move from Sun StorEdge 9960 to Sun StorEdge 9990 On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Dale Ghent wrote: > On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:52 PM, James M McNutt wrote: > > > We are currently running Solaris 9 with VxVM/VxFS > > and looking to move to Solaris 10 with ZFS. > > > > > current configuration: > > 48,000 user a

Re: Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread Leena Heino
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, James M McNutt wrote: > We are currently running Solaris 9 with VxVM/VxFS > and looking to move to Solaris 10 with ZFS. > > I was looking for some feedback from those using ZFS. > > what type of system? 2 accounts, lots of mailboxes > what type of storage? EMC Clariion C

Re: Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread Dale Ghent
On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:52 PM, James M McNutt wrote: > We are currently running Solaris 9 with VxVM/VxFS > and looking to move to Solaris 10 with ZFS. > current configuration: > 48,000 user accounts with 350,000 mailboxes spread across: > 4 Sun V880 server attached to a SAN > 3 spools per server

Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread James M McNutt
We are currently running Solaris 9 with VxVM/VxFS and looking to move to Solaris 10 with ZFS. I was looking for some feedback from those using ZFS. what type of system? what type of storage? how large? compression? replication? problems? current configuration: 48,000 user accounts with 35