On 6/23/08 6:22 AM, "Mertol Ozyoney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few days a ago a customer tested a Sunfire X4500 connected to a network > with 4 x 1 Gbit ethernets. X4500 have modest CPU power and do not use any > Raid card. The unit easly performaed 400 MB/sec on write from LAN tests > which clearly limited by the ethernet ports. > > Mertol This is what we are seeing with our X4500. Clearly, the four Ethernet channels are our limiting factor. We put 10Gbps Ethernet on the unit, but as this is currently the only 10-gig host on our network (waiting for Vmware drivers to support the X6250 cards we bought), I can't really test that fully. We're using this as a NFS/Samba server, so JBOD with ZFS is "fast enough." I'm waiting for COMSTAR and ADM to really take advantage of the Thumper platform. The "complete storage stack" that Sun and the OpenSolaris project have envisioned will make such "commodity" hardware useful pieces of our solution. I love our EMC/Brocade/HP SAN gear, but it's just too expensive to scale (particularly when it comes to total data management). Charles _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
