Thanks both, very good pieces of advice there. Wonko, I was about to question how much difference the iRAM will actually make with it being on a single SATA connection, but after googling, for £70 + RAM it's worth buying just as an experiment.
I'm really not interested in iSCSI, it might be slightly faster, but NFS's ease of use means we're definately going down that route. There's enough press about larger VMware customers switching to NFS that I'm happy it'll work well enough. At the end of the day I suspect we'll have a setup that's overkill considering the load on our servers. Performance really isn't a concern. To illustrate the point, our current VMware server is a 32GB Sun x2200 running 8 virtual servers and half a dozen virtual XP clients of two local SATA disks. That server's barely ticking over, so a pair of x2200's connecting to a 16 drive ZFS array via 10Gb/s Infiniband should work well enough. We're upgrading more for security of the storage than for performance reasons. We started off with VMware and the Sun server on a 60 day trial, they proved so useful we bought them outright, and over the last few months their use has grown to the extent we really need the VM's stored properly now. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
