[zfs-discuss] Sun T3-2 and ZFS on JBODS

2011-03-02 Thread Sigbjorn Lie
Hi, We have purchased a new Sun (Oracle) T3-2 machine and 5 shelves of 12 x 2TB SAS2 JBOD disks for our new backup server. Each shelf is connected via a single SAS cable to a seperate SAS controller. When the system arrived it had Solaris 10 U9 preinstalled. We tested ZFS performance and got r

[zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Sun T3-2 and ZFS on JBODS]

2011-03-02 Thread Sigbjorn Lie
I forgot to mention, the server was jumpstarted with Solaris 10 U9, and the latest patch cluster was downloaded and applied. Original Message Subject: [zfs-discuss] Sun T3-2 and ZFS on JBODS From:"Sigbjorn L

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Craig Morgan
And I'd just add … amke sure you are running a recent enough release of ZFS to support importation of a pool without the SLOG device being available, just in case export/recovery of the pool need to be attempted elsewhere than the traditional server. Of course they also limit deployments in poor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, March 1, 2011 16:32, Rocky Shek wrote: > David, > > STEC/DataON ZeusRAM(Z4RZF3D-8UC-DNS) SSD now available for users in > channel. > > It is 8GB DDR3 RAM based SAS SSD protected by supercapacitor and NVRAM > 16GB. > > It is designed for ZFS ZIL with low latency > > http://dataonstorage.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, March 1, 2011 10:35, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will > never benefit from an SLOG. I've been fighting the urge to maybe do something about ZIL (which is what we're talking about here, right?). My load is CIFS, not NF

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Pooser
On 3/2/11 9:42 AM, "David Dyer-Bennet" wrote: >Says "call for price". I know what that means, it means "If you have to >ask, you can't afford it. I called. It's $3k -- not a fit for my archive servers, but an interesting idea for a database server I'm building Probably not a great product

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Mar 2 at 9:58, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Tue, March 1, 2011 10:35, Garrett D'Amore wrote: a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will never benefit from an SLOG. I've been fighting the urge to maybe do something about ZIL (which is what we're t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun T3-2 and ZFS on JBODS

2011-03-02 Thread Marion Hakanson
sigbj...@nixtra.com said: > I've played around with turning on and off mpxio on the mpt_sas driver, > disabling increased the performance from 30MB / sec, but it's still far from > the original performance. I've attached some dumps of zpool iostat before and > after reinstallation. I find "zpool