On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:02:24AM -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:26:20AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
>>> It would also be nice for extra hardware (PCI-X, PCIe card) that
>>> added NVRAM storage to various sun low/mid-range servers that are
>>> currently acting as ZFS/NFS servers.
>>
>> You can do it yourself very easily -- check out the umem cards from
>> Micro Memory, available at http://www.umem.com. Reasonable prices
>> ($1000/GB), they have a Solaris driver, and the performance
>> absolutely rips.
>
> The PCIe card is in beta, they don't sell to individual customers, and
> the person I spoke with didn't even know a vendor (Tier 1/2 OEMs) that
> had a Solaris driver. They do have a number of PCI-X cards though.
>
> So, I guess we'll be testing the "dedicate all NVRAM to LUN" solution
> once b68 is released.
or ramdiskadm(1M) might be interesting...
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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