On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:22:48AM -0700, Ross wrote: > 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.
Yeah, it's an amazingly cheap item, I *really* need to break down and buy one or two of them. > 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. Ok, that's fine, I was just throwing the suggestion out there for you. ;) That being said though, search this list/forum for the NFS performance threads and you will see that you will most likely want to do _something_ with some sort of slog device. Just fair warning. ;) The nice thing though is you can try without the slog, and if you find that it would be nice to have, you can always add it later without issue (and on the fly if you're setup for that with how you would connect it). -brian -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
