Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Wolfraider > > target mode, using both ports. We have 1 zvol connected to 1 windows > server and the other zvol connected to another windows server with both > windows servers having a qlogic 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-16 Thread Wolfraider
We have the following setup configured. The drives are running on a couple PAC PS-5404s. Since these units do not support JBOD, we have configured each individual drive as a RAID0 and shared out all 48 RAID0’s per box. This is connected to the solaris box through a dual port 4G Emulex fibrechan

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-16 Thread Wolfraider
We downloaded zilstat from http://www.richardelling.com/Home/scripts-and-programs-1 but we never could get the script to run. We are not really sure how to debug. :( ./zilstat.ksh dtrace: invalid probe specifier #pragma D option quiet inline int OPT_time = 0; inline int OPT_txg = 0; inline

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Mosetick
We have two Intel X25-E 32GB SSD drives in one of our servers. I'm using one for ZIl and one for L2ARC, we are having great results so far. Cheers, -Chris On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Sep 14, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Wolfraider wrote: > > > We are looking into the poss

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 14, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Wolfraider wrote: > We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or L2ARC > devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 – 32GB Intel X25-E SSD > drives. Would this be a good solution to slow write speeds? Maybe, maybe not. Use zilstat t

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Wolfraider > > We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or > L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 – 32GB Intel > X25-E SSD drives. Would this be a

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:08:42AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Wolfraider wrote: > > We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or > > L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 ??? 32GB > > Intel X25-E SSD drives. Wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfraider
Cool, we can get the Intel X25-E's for around $300 a piece from HP with the sled. I don't see the X25-M available so we will look at 4 of the X25-E's. Thanks :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Wolfraider wrote: > We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or > L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 – 32GB > Intel X25-E SSD drives. Would this be a good solution to slow write > speeds? We are currently shari

[zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfraider
We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 – 32GB Intel X25-E SSD drives. Would this be a good solution to slow write speeds? We are currently sharing out different slices of the pool to windows servers using com