Re: [zfs-discuss] Any recommendations on Perc H700 controller on Dell Rx10 ?

2012-03-10 Thread Philippe Schwarz
Le 10/03/2012 10:29, Sriram Narayanan a écrit : > Hi folks: > > At work, I have an R510, and R610 and an R710 - all with the H700 PERC > controller. > > Based on experiments, it seems like there is no way to bypass the PERC > controller - it seems like one can only access the individual disks if

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 09/07/2010 01:37, Edward Ned Harvey a écrit : >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Schwarz >> . > But if you're impressed with performance by e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/07/2010 18:52, Freddie Cash a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Philippe Schwarz wrote: >> With dual-Xeon, 4GB of Ram (will be 8GB in a couple of weeks), two PCI-X >> 3Ware cards 7 Sata disks (750G & 1T) over FreeB

[zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Philippe Schwarz
Hi, With dual-Xeon, 4GB of Ram (will be 8GB in a couple of weeks), two PCI-X 3Ware cards 7 Sata disks (750G & 1T) over FreeBSD 8.0 (But i think it's OS independant), i made some tests. The disks are exported as JBOD, but i tried enabling/disabling write-cache . I tried with UFS and ZFS on the sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for iSCSI based SAN

2009-06-24 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Magda a écrit : > On Wed, June 24, 2009 08:42, Philippe Schwarz wrote: > >> In my tests ESX4 seems to work fine with this, but i haven't already >> stressed it ;-) >> >> Therefore, i don't know if th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for iSCSI based SAN

2009-06-24 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 milosz a écrit : >> Within the thread there are instructions for using iometer to load test your >> storage. You should test out your solution before going live, and compare >> what you get with what you need. Just because striping 3 mirrors *will* g

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for iSCSI based SAN

2009-06-24 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i'm getting involved in a pre-production test and want to be sure of the means i'll have to use. Take 2 SunFire x4150 & 1 3750 Gb Cisco Switche 1 private VLAN on the Gb ports of the SW. 1 x4150 is going to be ESX4 aka VSphere Server ( 1 Hardwar